Spring|Summer 2022 Gallery
Selections from works uploaded by artists to their portfolios on Emergent Art Space during Spring and Summer 2022.
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9ft X5ft
I live in one of the dense areas of Delhi which has multistory buildings and narrow streets. Strolling in these streets leads me to this artwork. When I visit these streets and see upward, I can see a narrowly defined sky from the isles or the buildings are visible in a long lane. This defined sky inspires me to this artwork and it has some metaphorical meanings related to my personal life. I am starting to explore some of the questions from this artwork viz. how much we are surrounded by these urban spaces, and how these kinds of urban spaces are growing rapidly and affecting us physically as well as psychologically. How we came here and where we are going.
The Gravity of Sky was a part of the group show World Within World Without co-curated by Prima Kurien and Rahul Kumar represented by gallery Art Incept.
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65x50
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"There is no glory in the things that cause you pain.
Do not glorify the things that cause you pain.
Only glorify how you overcame the pain." - Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo.
Chamomile tea is a portrait and literary series that looks into mental health illnesses and wellbeing in society from the perspective of the individual, tackling issues like support, acceptance, process and healing. This is a topic that Adikinyi enjoys exploring in her art.
Find more on her website, [adikinyi.co.ke].
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One of the Nancefield Hostel ladies named Trudy is spotted with a candle on her head in her room.
She says the reason she puts the candle on her head is as a way to deliver herself from the spirit of demons.
Picture: Mpumelelo Buthelezi
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Nathi Zungu is one of the local residents living in hostel number 130 NanceField Hostel, Soweto who makes a living by assisting at a local barbershop around the area.
Picture: Mpumelelo Buthelezi
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This is a view of my village. I love the landscapes and tall trees that should be preserved to give us clean air and a healthy environment.
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We cannot control external events which happen to us but we can control our attitudes and responses towards them.
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Black Gold Of The Sun : Hugh Masekela - a South African musician and activist.
Black Gold of the Sun (BGOTS) is a digital art series where Adikinyi invited you to her world where she interacts with mind opening music, art, political thought and literature from modern black artists. She creates pieces based on the impact that these African and diasporical people as well as tell the stories on how coming into contact with this consciousness has shifted her.
You can find more of 'Black Gold Of The Sun' on her behance profile (behance.net/adikinyi) and her website (adikinyi.co.ke)
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Abril 2022
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'The Only Borders' seeks to pronounce a comment about the unification of humanity as a single unit irrespective of National and Political borders. In the centre, the female figure, inspired by the Renaissance depiction of the "ideal" man by Leonardo da Vinci, is a fantastical personification of the cosmos engulfing and embodying the core of human values. The quotes of two distinct scholars narrate the dialectic of the position of a person; respectively, Carl Sagan and Rohith Vemula, of very different fates and social backgrounds, that I took the liberty to paraphrase slightly to match the composition.
The two respective comments, one by Sagan, says, 'We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with it. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what is true. We are one species. The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff.'; While Vemula's narrative, which is the excerpt from his suicide note, reads, 'Our beliefs colored our originality valid through artificial art. It has become very difficult to love without getting hurt. The value of a person was reduced to their immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind. As a glorious thing made up of star stuff.' The two narratives intersect and meet at the words 'Of star stuff'. The painting is informed by real-life documentation of Syrian and Rohingya refugees.