| Rele presents Gladys Kalichini for Liste Art Fair BaselRele is delighted to present Ubu bukata bupela ubumi (This bread gives life) (2024), a multi sensory intervention by represented artist Gladys Kalichini for Liste Art Fair Basel 2024.Via moving image and site specific installation, Kalichini will explore the roles performed by women in various spheres of social life. The project uses lace fabrics and water as connection points to collect various stories and memories by women. Through video, sculpture, and installation, Kalichini offers a melancholic meditation on Zambia’s colonial and postcolonial histories, addressing themes such as trauma and death. Her approach to the archive as a space of enunciation shines a critical light on acts of omission or erasure of women’s contributions to Zambia’s political history.REQUEST PREVIEWAbout the Artist:Gladys Kalichini (b. 1989, Zambia) is a contemporary visual artist and scholar from Lusaka, Zambia. Her work centers around notions of erasure, memory, and representations and visibilities of women in colonial resistance histories. Her multi-layered installations draw largely from research material and archival photographs of women in independence struggles. Kalichini’s work challenges dominant and nationalist narratives that have historically erased women’s contributions to history and political change.Kalichini has a Master of Fine Art and PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from Rhodes University, in South Africa. Exhibitions include Seekers, Seers, Soothsayers (2023), Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa; Barmoko Encounters, African Biennale of Photography, Mali; Geographies of Imagination: My Language is a Dedouin Thief, Kochi Biennale, India; For the Phoenix To Find Its Form In Us and On Restitution, Rehabilitation and Reparation, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. Kalichini is a member of the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, supported by the Andrew. W. Mellon foundation and the National Research Fund. She is the 2022 main prize winner for the Henrike Grohs Art Award and a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award. Visit Rele at Liste Art Fair Basel: 10th – 16th June 2024Stand 8 Liste Art Fair Basel Messe Basel, Hall 1.1 Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113 4058 BaselFor further information, click here.VISIT RELE ON ARTSYLAGOS | LOS ANGELES | LONDONClick here for directions: 5-7 Dover Street Mayfair London W1S4LD United Kingdom london@rele.co (+44) 33 015 3618 |
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