and then we dreamt of a million uprisings and downfalls

Donna Kukama

and then we dreamt of a million uprisings and downfalls, 201865 x 45cmSign in to view price
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Squid ink and oil stick on canvasblank projects
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This abstract artwork features a dark, rich brown background with a complex pattern of delicate, white brush strokes. The composition creates a sense of movement and depth, with the strokes appearing to sway and flow across the canvas. The overall effect is one of a serene, meditative quality, achieved through the artist's skillful use of monochromatic tones and expressive, gestural techniques. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to evoke a contemplative mood and invite the viewer to engage in a deeper, introspective experience. ...

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Donna Kukama
Artist
Donna Kukama
B.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
Black Fan
Sizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai
Revolution
Donna KukamaRevolution, 2017
70 x 57 x 0.6cm
Situation
Donna KukamaSituation, 2017
36 x 35 x 0.6cm
Why You for Me?
Donna KukamaWhy You for Me?, 2023
128 x 208 x 4.5cm
blank projects
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. ...