Laeïla Adjovi and Alexander Kyungu Mwilambwe link African pasts to new imagined futures. Through their work with rubber and cotton, they contend with borders and bodies. The materials are their storytelling agents, deployed to make social and environmental commentary...
Three female artists from Uganda and Benin present textiles, zines, and photography that reimagine contemporary African experiences through materials, memory, and the environment. Charity Atukunda (Uganda), Gloria Kiconco (Uganda), and Laeïla Adjovi (Benin) showcase...
Piloya Irene shares a combination of three different kinds of fabrics juxtaposed together: Kyenkyen, Dawadawa, and Lubugo. Made in Ghana and Uganda, the materials connect two traditions of textile making. Kyenkyen has been organically produced in Ghana since before...
The hadra is a ritual, with embodied gatherings and invocations of communion with ancestral spirituality. The term translates from Arabic to mean a Devine presence. It is this presence that Elsadig Janka connects in his series Ahmed My Beloved. For this photographic...
This exhibition brings together the diverse practices of four artists, each working within their own distinct mediums yet unified by a shared exploration of the forces of fission, fusion, and creative convergence. The exhibition explores how fragmentation and unity,...
Borderlands Art is delighted to present works from the SEND ME exhibition. Following the idea that insecurity is not new, the exhibition took a historical and contemporary look at artistic freedom. It traced different eras of political repression in Uganda and...
For the first time in South Africa, we showcased the work of emerging artists Elsadig Janka (Sudan) and Manuela Lara (Colombia). These two artists use contemporary art as a form of liberation, reframing narratives of violence through activism and resilience. Their...