Artist Talk: Louise Mandumbwa

Join us for a conversation between artist Louise Mandumbwa and writer, curator, and researcher, Shameekia Shantel Johnson.
About this Event

On the occasion of Louise Mandumbwa's debut solo exhibition, A world in the creases of my palms, Long Gallery Harlem is pleased to present a conversation between the artist and writer, curator, and researcher, Shameekia Shantel Johnson. The discussion will consider memory, place-making, diasporic belonging, and the formation of personal and collective histories through material and image-making processes. Following the talk, please join us for a reception and a participatory tactile activity developed by the artist.

Louise Mandumbwa (born 1996, Francistown, Botswana) is an artist working in painting, printmaking and drawing to explore ideations of home, figurative and botanical works. Her practice is a counter mapping endeavor examining the ranging registers of memory through material exploration, the illegible image and failed translation. Her works revisits sites of both familial and diasporic history and appends them with affect and the anecdotal.

Shameekia Shantel Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean ancestry from New York City. Working from the critical framework of social architecture, she considers the multidimensional relationship between people, politics, narrative, and environment.