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Kyambi is an artist and professor that is apart of a program that allows her to visit the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg from 2023-2025. [1]
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Her work combines the use of performance along with mediums such as clay, sisal, paint, and photography. Most of her work analyzes perception and memory. Kyambi examines how modern human experience is influenced by constructed history, past and present violence, colonialism, family, and sexuality. Kyambi is an artist and professor that is apart of a program that allows her to visit the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg from 2023-2025.
2nd source:
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=artlas
- Joyeux-Prunel, Béatrice and Olivier Marcel. "Exhibition Catalogues in the Globalization of Art. A Source for Social and Spatial Art History." Bulletin 4, no. 2 (2015): Article 8.
Early life and education[edit] edit
Syowia was born in 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya, to a Kenyan father and German mother and grew up in Kenya. After growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, she decided to fly to the United States, where she then attended school. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ,where she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2002 before returning to Kenya in 2003. She holds an MFA from the University of Plymouth - Transart Institute (2020).
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00020184.2011.594628
- Annie E. Coombes a.coombes (2011) Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi, African Studies, 70:2, 202-223, DOI: 10.1080/00020184.2011.594628
Career[edit] edit
Her work combines the use of performance along with mediums such as clay, sisal, paint, and photography. Most of her work analyzes perception and memory. Kyambi examines how modern human experience is influenced by constructed history, past and present violence, colonialism, family, and sexuality. Kyambi expresses, through her artwork, the struggles of Kenyan history, including how Kenyan people used to work for the British in colonial times.
4th source:
- Ruth Simbao, William B. Miko, Eyitayo Tolulope Ijisakin, Romuald Tchibozo, Masimba Hwati, Kristin NG-Yang, Patrick Mudekereza, Aidah Nalubowa, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Lee-Roy Jason, Eman Abdou, Rehema Chachage, Amanda Tumusiime, Suzana Sousa, Fadzai Muchemwa; Reaching Sideways, Writing Our Ways: The Orientation of the Arts of Africa Discourse. African Arts 2017; 50 (2): 10–29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_a_00341
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'Rose's Relocation,' edit
28 cm x 38 cm, digital piece printed on matte paper
Miriam Syowia Kyambi is always tying her culture back into her projects. A piece called 'Rose's Relocation' is a digital piece printed on matte paper. This piece is 28 cm x 38 cm. Kyambi's representation combines two worlds of this one character centered in the photo. This character is living in rural Kenya. This character is exposed to French culture and the materialism involved there. This character is left feeling alone and struggling with self-recognition. The character was in Kenya in the past, but now facing France in her present life, she is confused between the two countries.
5th source:
https://uonjournals.uonbi.ac.ke/ojs/index.php/adrj/article/view/1037
Gichina, Samantha W. - "Impact of Multimedia Artist Syowia Kyambi on The Exposure Of African Socio-Economic, Cultural and Political Themes"
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Her work combines the use of performance along with mediums such as clay, sisal, paint, and photography. Most of her work analyzes perception and memory. Kyambi examines how modern human experience is influenced by constructed history, past and present violence, colonialism, family, and sexuality. Kyambi expresses, through her artwork, the struggles of Kenyan history, including how Kenyan people used to work for the British in colonial times. (3rd source) Throughout Kyambi's career, her artwork has repeatedly proven that colonialism is an insensitive act. She does this through her multi-media artwork, which educates the public about colonialism. Kyambi uses artifacts as research for her installations, projects, or multi-media artwork. This second source helps her collect history and information about its origin. Using historical items to guide her artwork, she also uses her research through her photographic works and performance art. These historical items are typically used in her performance art and photographs and represent symbolism relating to the artifact. (5th source)
6th source:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21500894.2015.1126853
- Annie E. Coombes (2016) Photography against the grain: rethinking the colonial archive in Kenyan museums, World Art, 6:1, 61-83, DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2015.1126853 Annie E. Coombes a.coombes (2011) Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi, African Studies, 70:2, 202-223, DOI: 10.1080/00020184.2011.594628
About[edit] edit
Syowia Kyambi is a multimedia and interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work spans photography, video, drawing, sound, sculpture, and performance installation. She is of Kenyan and German descent, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is known for her "performative installations that recast historical (Western) narratives and intervene in spheres of colonial activities" with work reputed for tackling "complex and sometimes difficult or tabooed matters" that afford "multiple points of entry, grounded in a sense of place and history while recognizing the mutability of those concepts." Through focusing on historical past, she also draws the audience's attention to daily life through her artwork.