Take a listen to this playlist of the top episodes of our podcast where we have spoken to various artists about their practice, exhibitions, residencies…
Artist: HELENA UAMBEMBE
Combatente de Bufalo
Like a hand-carved mask or ornament, the buffalo head at first represented death, but its meaning has evolved as the dialogue in her work has…
Brothers in arms (O Henda)
Like a hand-carved mask or ornament, the buffalo head at first represented death, but its meaning has evolved as the dialogue in her work has…
Batalhāo
Like a hand-carved mask or ornament, the buffalo head at first represented death, but its meaning has evolved as the dialogue in her work has…
Helena Uambembe: “Commander Nel’s Archive”, 2020
Helena Uambembe (1994) was born in Pomfret, South Africa to Angolan parents who fled the civil war which broke out in their home country in 1975. Once in South Africa, her father joined the 32…
Tchigangi
Like a hand-carved mask or ornament, the buffalo head at first represented death, but its meaning has evolved as the dialogue in her work has…
Each generation must discover it mission, fulfil it or betray it in relative opacity – Fanon
Helena specifically explores the archive of images given to her by Commander Nel, grappling with the content and, through the lithographic print process, disrupting both his images…
As meninas
Helena specifically explores the archive of images given to her by Commander Nel, grappling with the content and, through the lithographic print process, disrupting both his images…
Nel and officers
Like a hand-carved mask or ornament, the buffalo head at first represented death, but its meaning has evolved as the dialogue in her work has…
Ganhar uma bandeira
Nel
In 2017 Helena visited the former Commanding Officer of the 32 Battalion, Gert Nel, and he showed her his personal archive of military images. Helena’s 2018-19…