We can't (and won't) live without our lives

Donna Kukama

We can't (and won't) live without our lives, 201989 x 124 x 4.5cmSign in to view price
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ink, oil stick, graphite and saliva on canvasblank projects
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This abstract artwork features a predominantly gray and black color palette, with a textured and chaotic composition of overlapping organic shapes and wiggly lines. The overall impression is one of movement and spontaneity, evoking a sense of energy and dynamism. The artist has employed a gestural, expressive drawing technique, using the medium of charcoal or graphite to create a sense of spontaneity and immediacy. The piece seems to convey a sense of unrestrained expression, reflecting the artist's intention to capture the fluid, subconscious nature of the creative process. ...

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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
and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed
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and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed, 2019
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The rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting
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The rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting, 2019
218.5 x 189cm
We can't (and won't) live without our lives
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We can't (and won't) live without our lives, 2019
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uhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1
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uhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1, 2019
49 x 34cm
Black Fan
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Black Fan, 2018
38 x 29cm
364 and still counting
Donna Kukama
364 and still counting, 2016
29 x 21cm
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The soil remembers that we are its doorless inhabitants
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The soil remembers that we are its doorless inhabitants, 2019
200 x 144cm
364 and still counting
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364 and still counting, 2016
The day vanilla decided she was a spice
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The day vanilla decided she was a spice, 2020
172 x 172cm
how powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead
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how powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead, 2020
137.5 x 108.5cm
Not Yet (And Nobody Knows Why Not)
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Not Yet (And Nobody Knows Why Not), 2008
Sizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai
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Sizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai, 2019
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Shadows of fallen fists fighting for fake traumas
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Shadows of fallen fists fighting for fake traumas, 2020
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To erase oneself over and over and over again
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To erase oneself over and over and over again, 2022
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Revolution
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Situation
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Even in their kindest kindest kindness, they were violent (vol. 1)
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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. ...

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