Sandra Mujinga (NO)
Sandra Mujinga’s practice is concerned with visibility and the avoidance of surveillance or capture. Drawing on Afrofuturist fiction and posthuman thought, several recent works have imagined speculative worlds in which hybrid characters have adopted technologies and techniques from forms of non-human life, such as nocturnality, mutability and camouflage, in order to evade threat or to simply live comfortably. In Mujinga’s work, the black body refuses coherent visual representation and instead exists in a state of constant rendering and disappearance.
Sandra Mujinga (b. 1989, Congo) lives and works between Oslo and Berlin. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Swiss Institute, New York; Göteborgs Konstmuseum (both 2021); Vleeshal, Middleburg (2020); Bergen Kunsthall (2019). Recent and upcoming group shows include New Museum Triennial, New York; ICA, Los Angeles; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (all 2021) and Kunstverein Hannover (2020).
Ghosting
Soft PVC, denim, acrylic paint, oil paint, glycerine, threaded rods and rod couplings. Dimensions variable
2019
Installation view Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2020
Photo by David Stjernholm
Courtesy of Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Nokturnal Kinship
Coated PU leather, grommets, polyester, lycra fabric, reflector fabric 3 sculptures, each: 270 x 80 x 50 cm
2018
Installation view Beyond the Black Atlantic, Kunstverein Hannover, 2020
Photo by Volker Crone
Courtesy of Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Installation view Calluses, Tranen, Hellerup, 2020
Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Courtesy of Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Installation view Hoarse Globules, UKS, Oslo, 2018
Courtesy of Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Camouflage Waves #1
Inkjet print on film, soft PVC, grommets, threaded rods, 194 x 128 cm
2018
Installation view Calluses, Tranen, Hellerup, 2020
Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Courtesy of Croy Nielsen, Vienna
