Where do we go from here? Part 2: Dominique White & Kumbirai Makumbe
Thursday 30 September, 7 – 8:15pm
Online (via Zoom)
Free & open to all
Detail from a new drawing by Dominique White, featured in Becoming Fugitive State
We are delighted to host artists Dominique White and Kumbirai Makumbe as part of our programme 'Being fugitive state', which features a series of old and new drawings by Dominique. In her tenuous markmakings and sketches of unrealised works, she shifts her weight from the Afrofuturistic object-promises of her sculptures to 'uncontain' more mutable territories / terror-tories of Blackness and its embodiment of impossibility.
'Where do we go from here? Part 2' will see Dominique and Kumbirai continue exploring their life and artistic practices in relation to 'Black speculative fiction, diasporic yearning and ideas of "in-betweenness"'. In particular, this will be a space for them to 'exercise / exorcise' their work, to 'flesh out [their] feelings' in the liveness of conversation.
Dominique White
Dominique White is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London and Central Saint Martins. Recent exhibitions include Blackness in Democracy's Graveyard at UKS, Oslo (2021), Techno Worlds, produced by Goethe-Institut, at Art Quarter Budapest (2021); Possédé·e·s at MO.CO, Montpellier (2020–21); and Boundary + Gesture at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2019). She was awarded the Roger Pailhas Prize in 2019 in conjunction with her solo show at VEDA, Florence (2019) and received awards from Artangel and the Henry Moore Foundation in 2020. Dominique was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (Santiago, Chile), Triangle France – Astérides (Marseille, France) and La Becque (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) in 2020 and 2021.
Kumbirai Makumbe
Kumbirai Makumbe currently takes form as a London based artist who believes in the transmutation of the intangible yet experiential. They transform & metamorphose to ceaselessly take on various forms. They place significant effort into speculative explorations of alternative modes of being and thinking that result in emancipation. They are continually enticed by the materiality of digital matter and its limitlessness. Through this lens, they interrogate the multi-dimensionality of blackness, ‘in-betweenness’, ‘caring’, transcendence and ethereality.
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