Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by
Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.
Who claims abstraction? What are the limits of abstraction? Are statelessness, dislocation and feelings of (un) belonging embodiments of an abstracted self that is in itself a work in progress? How could performance art—an artistic practice that places significant importance on presence and legibility of form—transgress into the realm of the abstract and the illegible in an effort to protect the artist's likeness while shedding light on what it means to be in their body in relation to this world?
Chipo Chipaziwa's My Mother My Home establishes itself as a query on the aspects of belonging and the artist's own personhood that acts as the foundation of her practice. The question of where one's personhood begins and ends within an artwork has appeared to be ever prevalent within the realm of visual art and is more relevant within the canon of performance art.
Chipo Chipaziwa (born 1997 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a performance artist whose practice investigates the power dynamic between performer and audience.
Edited by Edited by Katrina Geotjen.
Texts by Chipo Chipaziwa,
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Olumoroti George; artistic contributions by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, David Ezra Wang.
2025 (publication expected by 4th quarter)
English edition
92 pages (ill.)
18.00 €
ISBN : 978-3-949973-64-2
EAN : 9783949973642
forthcoming
