Cinthia Sifa Mulanga

“I was born in the DRC however, the visual references and influences in my art are rooted in my adopted home of South Africa, where I grew up and move places then trained as an artist at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg. The focus at that institution is on print-making, however, I became preoccupied with painting and collage.  These are the mediums that have come to define my practice. They serve in my dual interest in engaging with the history of western art and popular culture thus delving into African art. The focus of my art is on the representation of Black women. Through their depiction, I engage in different personas, emotions, or states of mind. Typically, I juxtapose several different women in my paintings, thereby highlighting the complexities of female identity, the stream of varying consciousnesses that occupy a single space, identity or moment in time. As such my paintings operate as multi-perspectival portraits while the spaces allow me to create open conversations and interrogate the notions of beauty. This polyphonic character is amplified through the introduction of additional female subjects via the inclusion of painted or collaged artworks hanging on the walls of the rooms occupied by my...

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