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Ancestry (Online Exhibition)
Maliza Kiasuwa, 28 May - 17 October 2021

Ancestry (Online Exhibition): Maliza Kiasuwa

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The Proud Of Origins Collection I, 2020, 35 x 45 cm
The Proud Of Origins Collection I, 2020, 35 x 45 cm

“I came across a series of engravings representing a couple of their paternal an- cestors, I decided to do crossbreeding backwards. I Africanized this pot-bellied bourgeois and his melancholy wife. Our ancestors had to meet, they who could not even conceive that their blood would one day be mixed with that of the fierce Queen Zinga of the Congo. I want my children to be proud of this colorful heritage. It is the demonstration that humans are barely getting to know each other. That the world is not just white and black. Our ancestors are the colors of the artist’s palette. The colors of which the divine breath makes the unique work that each of us is. But they also link us to the dawn of time.

 

To this continuity of human life that started from somewhere in Africa, has strayed into cold and distant lands where only forests are black to meet again a few million years on the banks of the Congo River. We are the soul of the world, like the trees and stones that Africans worship as well as the gods. I wondered, delicately putting tribal paintings on the faces of these somewhat stiff ancestors, what they thought. I think they were laughing looking at each other. All the ancestors of the world are benevolent. So I poured a little beer on the floor for their health, as it is in the lands of my ancestors. “

 

"I live on a disaffected farm by the lake of Naivasha, in the hearth of the great Rift Valley. It is an African garden of Eden. The coexistence of these two worlds is an endless source of inspiration: my art reflects both the raw beauty of African wilderness and the African art of recycling, stitching and mending. My sculptures and collages are made of bits and pieces that I collect during my daily expeditions: cotton threads, handmade ropes made of straw or rubber, plastic bags stranded on the lake shore. Sometimes I combine local materials with handmade fabrics such as Japanese Washi paper. I like to put together stuff that does not belong together.

 

I am a self-taught artist, free from the formatting of art schools. I love creating works that produces stimulating and eclectic elements. I’m fascinated by natural laws that govern of the cycles of life and the power of nature. My interest in these transformative and regenerative processes come from a desire to understand the mystery of ageing and death as a process that is crucial to our existence. I slyly transform everyday articles combining reductive methods of shredding, twisting with constructive processes of tying, weaving stitching and dyeing. I give objects a new life and shape, while trying to preserve the integrity and the origin of each element of the process. I also paint and draw, and I like to switch from one to the other, but this is another story. Miles Davis said that jazz is the perfect combina- tion between discipline and improvisation. I like that. Most of my artworks look like Totems, I tried to honor nature and reconcile man and nature by assembling various textures that I sow together as a surgeon would do after a serious injury." 

Maliza Kiasuwa

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Works
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection V, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection V, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection I, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection I, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection II, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection II, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection III, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Proud Of Origins Collection III, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection VII, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection VII, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride of Origins, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride of Origins, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection IX, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection IX, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection X, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection X, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XI, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XI, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XII, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XII, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XIII, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XIII, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XIV, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins Collection XIV, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. History Of Negroes I, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. History Of Negroes I, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. History Of Negroes, II, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. History Of Negroes, II, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. History Of Negroes III, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. History Of Negroes III, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Breath Of Traditions I, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Breath Of Traditions I, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Breath Of Traditions II, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Breath Of Traditions II, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Breath Of Traditions III, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Breath Of Traditions III, 2020
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Masked Identity I, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Masked Identity I, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Masked Identity II, 2021
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Masked Identity II, 2021
  • Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Masked Identity III, 2020
    Maliza Kiasuwa, The Pride Of The Origins. Masked Identity III, 2020
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Publications
  • Ancestry (online exhibition)

    Ancestry (online exhibition)

    Maliza Kiasuwa 2021 Read more
News
  • Congo-Roumanie / Plasticienne / Maliza Kiasuwa / SUR LES BERGES IMAGINAIRES

    Congo-Roumanie / Plasticienne / Maliza Kiasuwa / SUR LES BERGES IMAGINAIRES

    Zo Magazine Read more
  • Kenya / Exhibition/ Maliza Kiasuwa/ The Time Of Humans And That Of Rivers

    Kenya / Exhibition/ Maliza Kiasuwa/ The Time Of Humans And That Of Rivers

    By Kalmos 58 for ZO' Mag Read more
Videos
  • Maliza Kiasuwa: Studio Visit

    Maliza Kiasuwa: Studio Visit

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Related content
  • Congo-Roumanie / Plasticienne / Maliza Kiasuwa / SUR LES BERGES IMAGINAIRES News

    Congo-Roumanie / Plasticienne / Maliza Kiasuwa / SUR LES BERGES IMAGINAIRES

    Zo Magazine Jul 8, 2021
    Read more
  • Kenya / Exhibition/ Maliza Kiasuwa/ The Time Of Humans And That Of Rivers News

    Kenya / Exhibition/ Maliza Kiasuwa/ The Time Of Humans And That Of Rivers

    By Kalmos 58 for ZO' Mag May 25, 2021
    Sur les photographies qui la représentent, Maliza Kiasuwa sourit. Le plus souvent, il y a derrière elle une toile, mais parfois, ce sont des choses...
    Read more
  • Ancestry (online exhibition) Publications

    Ancestry (online exhibition)

    Maliza Kiasuwa May 7, 2021
    ' I came across a series of engravings representing a couple of their paternal an- cestors, I decided to do crossbreeding backwards. I Africanized this...
    Read more
  • Maliza Kiasuwa: Studio Visit Videos

    Maliza Kiasuwa: Studio Visit

    May 5, 2021
    Read more
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