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MILUMBE HAIMBE
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"In the current reality of mass migration, my project, Citenge Interstate, explores my personal conflicts as a recent African migrant to Europe in the process of repatriating back to Africa. When a person dies without leaving behind a last will and testimony, his estate can be said to be in interstate, and in Zambian traditional law the estate remains in interstate until the wisdom of the clan appoints an administrator. This can be viewed as an analogy for the visual component of this project, which signifies the cultural death that occurs in the reality of migration, and the birth of a new tribe in the inevitability of ethnic reassignment."
Biography
Milumbe Haimbe is a Zambian artist who lives and works in Lusaka, Zambia. She has a BA in architecture and recently attained an MA in Fine Arts from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway.Her work is interested in exploring current psycho-socio trends, often postulating contemporary psyche and its associated social trajectories by reflecting on her own role as a currency in what the artist refers to as the marketplace of the commoditized world system. Her main medium is painting, drawing and text. |
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Toothache. Other Troubles. 2010.
Dragonfly Outside a Jar. 2010.
Wallpaper. The Screaming Flying Instructor. 2010.
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