BEING HERE LUANDA

Being Her(e): Meditations On African Femininities features works by female artists from Africa and the African Diaspora including Aida Muluneh (Ethiopia), Ato Malinda (Kenya), Dineo Seshee Bopape (SA), Ghada Amer (Egypt), Immaculate Mali (Uganda), Lebohang Kganye (SA), Mimi Cherono Ng’ok (Kenya), Nandipha Mntambo (SA), Phoebe Boswell (Kenya), Tabita Rezaire (SA/French Guiana), Zanele Muholi (SA), Zohra Opoku (Ghana), and the female collective Salooni Collective (Uganda). Being Her(e) examines the historical and contemporary understandings of what it means to be a female body in contemporary Africa. Invoking temporality as it pertains to womxn and girls on the African continent, it implies not only a presence denoted through being here but an unmistakable and defiant female presence which articulates itself as unquestionably being her. Navigating a historicization of the female body which chooses to articulate its presence and impact, Being Her(e) reflects on the act of myth-making in relation to