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Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwanga (Born 1978) is active/lives in Ontario / France, England.  Kapwani Kiwanga is known for Performance art, installations and sculpture.

If you haven’t heard of United States of Africa Space Agency, you’re likely not familiar with the world as told through the Afrogalactica trilogy—a captivating performance in which Kiwanga plays an anthropologist who narrates an afrofuturist reality.

Also working in sculpture and installation, Kapwani’s work “greatly and intentionally confuses truth and fiction in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives” such that they “let a marginal discourse flourish,” in the words of curatorial duo Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, who named her the commissioned artist of the 2016 Armory Show Focus.

Though this is her first solo commission in America, Kiwanga has been garnering buzz in Europe following a performance of the aforementioned work at the Tate Modern in 2014. In 2015, her work has emerged at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London, FIAC in Paris, and an exhibition at Tanja Wagner Galerie in Berlin, and in 2016 she’ll headline solo shows at La Ferme du Buisson and Le Gr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1128 characters.]  Artist bio

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