On the event of her first solo exhibition in Europe, Chemutai Ng’okay presents ten work and a number of drawings specifically made for the event, through which the artist explores the tensions inhabiting energy dynamics inherent in human interplay and their psychological results.
Educated in South Africa and specialised in portray and drawing, Chemutai Ng’okay has outlined over time an internationally oriented inventive journey strongly targeted on up to date politics in Africa, with specific consideration to social points and the long-standing legacy of colonialism. From the protests of the FeesMustFall college motion in South Africa in 2015 and 2016 to the presidential elections that shook Kenya in 2017, Ng’okay attracts inspiration from experiences which have concerned her first-hand to mirror on the ability dynamics that innervate society.
Ng’okay makes use of portray as her medium of expression, drawing inspiration from key occasions and figures from the fact round her. The artist depicts solitary and collective our bodies that dissolve and work together with one another on the canvas, evoking the symbolic nature of energy by means of atmospheres which are at occasions unreal and traversed by robust currents of psychological stress.
By an exhibition itinerary coming to life on the primary flooring of the Fondazione, the mission “An impression that will presumably final eternally” invitations the general public to mirror on the instability and transience of the occasions we’re referred to as upon to cross by means of, setting a nuanced narrative that doesn’t exclude the juxtaposition of photographs characterised by a robust sense of menace and intimate, heat atmospheres.
The artist’s most up-to-date manufacturing is characterised by an interpretation with robust autobiographical influences. Chemutai Ng’okay presents intense narrative layers that place the physique on the centre of the illustration. Portrayed throughout the vulnerability of their very own loneliness in addition to the power of collective motion, the our bodies on show at Fondazione ICA Milano are imprinted on canvas by means of daring brushstrokes of color, skinny and undulating traces that evoke tense atmospheres made stressed by the continual confrontation between the person and the political.
Curated by
Clare Nuzzi
at ICA Milan Foundation
till March 18, 2023
