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Mekondjo, TuliGuns & Rain

Born 1982 in Kwanza-Sul, Angola
Lives and works in Windhoek, Namibia

Tuli Mekondjo, Oshilongo inatu shi xupifa /This land we failed to rescue, 2021, Image transfer on canvas, cotton embroidery thread, crochet yarn and silk fabrics, 103 x 95 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Guns & Rain. 

Exploring history and identity politics through the lens of those who lived in exile during Namibia’s independence war, Tuli Mekondjo works with layered, textured mixed media (embroidery, collage, paint, resin and Mahangu millet grain – a Namibian food staple). She extends this into performance, and vice versa.  Mekondjo uses photographic images from public and personal archives to revisit the wartime context of her early childhood, growing up in the exile/refugee camps of Kwanza-Sul (Angola) and Nyango (Zambia). The archival photographs act as witness to the lives of women and children whose stories have often been overlooked in prevailing masculinist and patriotic histories of the war – and a means through which the artist re-engages her past. In a similar vein her work explores photographic archives of the early colonial period in Namibia.

Selected Artists

Chambers, Dominic

Agueznay, Amina

Ba, Omar

Sekajugo, Collin

Barnor, James

Wani, Richard Lokiden

Annor, Cornelius

Omofemi, Oluwole

Artists 2021

  • A

    • Abass, Kelani
    • Abbas, Rawan
    • Abdelrassoul, Souad
    • Abebe, Dawit
    • Aboudia
    • Adebowale, Tyna
    • Aduayom, Djeneba
    • Agueznay, Amina
    • Agusto, Bunmi
    • Akpojotor, Patrick
    • Alston, Patrick
    • Amaral, Laís
    • Amaro, Marlon
    • Amponsah, Larry
    • Andrialavidrazana, Malala
    • Anje, Boris ‘Anjel’
    • Annor, Cornelius
    • Ategwa, Ajarb Bernard
    • Atugonza, Richard
    • Audu, Osi
    • Ayman, Sara
  • B

    • Ba, Omar
    • Bakambana, Ngimbi
    • Bam, Ranti
    • Barnor, James
    • Be, Alun
    • Bertô
    • Bongoy, Patrick
    • Bosoka, Elolo
  • C

    • Camara, Serigne Mbaye
    • Chambers, Dominic
    • Chechet, Williams
    • Choumali, Joana
    • Chukwuma, Gerald
    • Clottey, Serge Attukwei
    • Conradie, Stephané E.
    • Cosbert, Ryan
  • D

    • D., Isabelle
    • Damoah, Adelaide
    • de Medeiros, Emo
    • Dhlamini, Mbali
    • Donkor, Godfried
    • Dorsey, Auudi
    • Dube, Thina
    • Dudx
  • E

    • El Makhloufi, Nabil
    • El Mur, Salah
    • Elemam, Mutaz
    • Erruas, Safaa
    • Essamba, Angèle Etoundi
  • F

    • Falade, Tobi Alexandra
    • Fatmi, Mounir
    • Fausto, Kelton Campos
  • G

    • Gollifer, Ann
    • Gyasi, Prince
  • H

    • Hagos, Tewodros
    • Hamidi, Mohamed
    • Hassan, Fathi
    • Hazoumè, Romuald
    • Houndekpinkou, King
  • J

    • James, February
  • K

    • Kamuanga Ilunga, Eddy
    • Khoza, Banele
    • Khumalo, Lindokuhle
    • Khumalo, Themba
    • Koorland, Vivienne
    • Kumah, Lord Ohene
    • Kwami, Atta
    • Ky, Siriki
  • L

    • Lagunju, Wole
    • Lamothe, Frantz
    • Lamrabat, Mous
    • Le Riche, Pierre
    • Lewis, Nate
    • Lindou, Salifou
    • Longe, Sahara
    • Luzamba, Zemba
  • M

    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Machache, Sekai
    • Macharia, Osborne
    • Macilau, Mario
    • Mackintosh, Theresa-Anne
    • Maepa, Amogelang
    • Mafafo, Kimathi
    • Magadlela, Turiya
    • Mahdi, Rashid
    • Mahfoudi, Omar
    • Makonnen, Tsedaye
    • Mangovo, Cristiano
    • Mapondera, Pardon
    • Marasela, Senzeni
    • Martiel, Carlos
    • Maxim, Georgina
    • Mbugua, Evans
    • McCannon, Dindga
    • McIntosh, Cheryl
    • Mekondjo, Tuli
    • Metaferia, Helina
    • Mivekannin, Roméo
    • More, DuduBloom
    • Motaung, Lerato
    • Mphande, Hazel
    • Muholi, Zanele
    • Mwangi, Lincoln
  • N

    • Naim, Sabah
    • Ndiba, Franco
    • Ngoya, Anthony
    • Nicodemus, Everlyn
    • Nkot, Jean David
  • O

    • Oduro, Nana Yaw
    • Ogunbiyi, Temitayo
    • Okpu-Egbe, Adjani
    • Omofemi, Oluwole
    • Omran, Mohamed Khaled
    • Onguene, Daniel
    • Orkin, Ben
    • Otieno, Dickens
    • Oumarou, Moustapha Baidi
  • P

    • Padeu, Marc
    • Palito, Zéh
    • Peskine, Alexis
    • Plaatjie, Aviwe
  • R

    • Reid, Benji
  • S

    • Said, Najla
    • Searle, Berni
    • Segun, Deborah
    • Sekajugo, Collin
    • Serraf, Micha
    • Shadi, Lerato
    • Shiferaw, Tariku
    • Singer, Jake Michael
    • Solanki, Shakil
    • Swaby, Giovanna
  • T

    • Taha, Mona
    • Tavares, René
    • Tega, Tafadzwa
    • Templeton Smith, Richard
    • Timothy, Arthur
  • U

    • Urgessa, Tesfaye
    • Uzochukwu, David
  • V

    • Vandy, LR
    • Viodé, Didier
    • Visagie, Morné
  • W

    • Wani, Richard Lokiden
    • Wasswa, Donald
    • Williamson, Sue
    • Wolf, Lulama
  • Y

    • Yilma Godine, Hana
    • Yusufu, Barry
  • Z

    • Zakari, Rufai
    • Zavale, Isaac
    • Zeghidour, Radouan
    • Zinkpè, Dominique

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