Donna Kukama

and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed, 2019162.5 x 167.5cmPrice on Request

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graphite, oil pastel, acrylic, land, bloodlines, and ancestral voices on canvasblank projectsCape Town

Description

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This abstract painting features a striking black background with intricate, gestural white lines that create a mesmerizing, almost calligraphic composition. The overall effect is one of dynamic movement and spontaneity, with the monochromatic palette and bold contrasts lending the work a sense of solemnity and contemplation. The artist's distinctive technique, which appears to involve mark-making with a fluid medium, lends the piece a sense of expressive immediacy and raw energy. This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of the relationship between form, line, and the emotive power of abstract visual language. ...

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Artist

Donna Kukama

1981 , South African

Donna Kukama is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages performance art as a tool for creative research. Her work presents institutions, monuments, gestures of protest, rumors, and fleeting moments that are as real as they are fictitious. Shifting between performance, video, text, sound, and multimedia installations, her practice takes on a form that is experimental, applying methods that are deliberately undisciplined. She uses performance as a strategy that allows her to invent as well as to apply methods that are outside the canon of what is predictable or expected. She questions how histories are narrated and subverts how value systems are constructed, often centering methods perspectives that originate from the Global South. Through her practice, she weaves major with minor aspects of histories, introducing fragile and brief moments of ‘strangeness’ within sociopolitical settings. Her performances are to be understood as gestures of poetry with a political intent and an urgent need to destabilize existing canons regarding the ways we look at reality. For Kukama, performance becomes a strategy for inserting foreign ‘undocumented’ voices and presences into history by occupying sites and territories that remember less-told stories. ...

Donna Kukama: Artworks

Donna Kukamaand the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed, 2019Price on Request

Donna KukamaThe rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting, 2019Price on Request

Donna KukamaWe can't (and won't) live without our lives, 2019Price on Request

Donna Kukamauhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1, 2019Price on Request

Donna KukamaBlack Fan, 2018Price on Request

Donna Kukama364 and still counting, 2016Price on Request

Donna KukamaTO BE ANNOUNCED, 2016Price on Request

Donna KukamaThe soil remembers that we are its doorless inhabitants, 2019Price on Request

Donna Kukama364 and still counting, 2016Price on Request

Donna KukamaThe day vanilla decided she was a spice, 2020Price on Request

Donna Kukamahow powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead, 2020Price on Request

Donna KukamaNot Yet (And Nobody Knows Why Not), 2008Price on Request

Donna KukamaSizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai, 201914000 EUR

Donna KukamaShadows of fallen fists fighting for fake traumas, 20209000 EUR

Donna KukamaTo erase oneself over and over and over again, 2022Price on Request

Donna KukamaRevolution, 2017Price on Request

Donna KukamaSituation, 2017Price on Request

Donna Kukamaand then we dreamt of a million uprisings and downfalls, 2018Price on Request

Donna KukamaEven in their kindest kindest kindness, they were violent (vol. 1), 2023Price on Request

Gallery

blank projects

Cape Town

Based in a 360 sqm gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, blank was founded by Jonathan Garnham as a project space in 2005 and transitioned into a commercial gallery during 2012. The gallery represents emerging and increasingly established artists from the region in a critically engaged programme that emphasises contemporaneity, with a focus on concept and abstraction in the African context. With an exhibition programme that has a reputation for shaping the discourse around contemporary art in South(ern) Africa, and participation in prominent local and international art fairs, we seek to place our artists' work in a wide range of private and institutional collections. In addition, blank continues to promote the visual arts in our community through ongoing projects that support the sector. ...