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Embodied Cognition | Tashinga Majiri | Nyasha Marovatsanga | Lulama Wolf

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3 November 2021 - 11 February 2022
  • Embodied Cognition

    Tashinga Majiri | Nyasha Marovatsanga | Lulama Wolf
  • “The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”

     

    - George Lakoff

  • The idea of a mind body duality has defined western philosophy since the Enlightenment, with profound implications. Cartesian Dualism is a powerful thought structure, shaping the way we view the world, and dividing it into opposites: mind and body, rational and irrational, right and wrong. Its rigid linearity ignoring the edges, slippage in meanings, the vague and undefined.

     

    This mind body duality is now being questioned. The idea of the disembodied mind, disproved.

    • Tashinga Majiri Enigma, 2021 150 x 130 cm Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
      Tashinga Majiri
      Enigma, 2021
      150 x 130 cm
      Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
  • Whichever way we look at it, our minds are embodied. We learn by doing and being. Our physicality defines our existence, and metaphors rooted in experience shape our consciousness.

     

    Painting is sensuous: the body in dialogue with the canvas. At times rational, but largely intuitive. The physicality of the gesture, like a dance. This visual language can’t be expressed though words alone, we experience it though feeling.

    • Tashinga Majiri Maoko neShanduko (Hands of Change) 2, 2021 175 x 250 cm Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
      Tashinga Majiri
      Maoko neShanduko (Hands of Change) 2, 2021
      175 x 250 cm
      Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
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    • Tashinga Majiri Enigma 2, 2021 130 x 96 cm Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
      Tashinga Majiri
      Enigma 2, 2021
      130 x 96 cm
      Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
    • Tashinga Majiri Maoko neShanduko (Hands of Change) 3, 2021 100 x 75 cm Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
      Tashinga Majiri
      Maoko neShanduko (Hands of Change) 3, 2021
      100 x 75 cm
      Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
    • Tashinga Majiri Maoko neShanduko (Hands of Change), 2021 150 x 130 cm Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
      Tashinga Majiri
      Maoko neShanduko (Hands of Change), 2021
      150 x 130 cm
      Oil paint and spray paint on canvas
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  • The artists in Embodied Cognition possess a unique visual language. Bypassing the linear, they use ambiguity and suggestion to create new metaphors and ways of seeing. They draw on a complex network of association – here a colour, there a familiar shape – to appeal to the subconscious, with layered and intuitive references.

    • Lulama Wolf U’mkhulu, 2021 150 x 250 x 8 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      U’mkhulu, 2021
      150 x 250 x 8 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
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    • Lulama Wolf Ease Reimagined, 2021 120 x 150 x 3 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Ease Reimagined, 2021
      120 x 150 x 3 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf Don't hold yourself higher than your reality or you can, 2021 40 x 40 x 3 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Don't hold yourself higher than your reality or you can, 2021
      40 x 40 x 3 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf Mbui - My Mothers Name, 2021 120 x 120 x 3 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Mbui - My Mothers Name, 2021
      120 x 120 x 3 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
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  • A new language embracing the slippage, the other. The mind, embodied.

     

    As we negotiate new realities in this age of connection, with minds that can no longer navigate its immense complexity, perhaps, as Hannah Arendt said, ”One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all. ”

    • Nyasha Marovatsanga Living in the Shadows, 2021 100 x 65 x 2.7 cm Oil on canvas
      Nyasha Marovatsanga
      Living in the Shadows, 2021
      100 x 65 x 2.7 cm
      Oil on canvas
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    • Nyasha Marovatsanga In my mind I have all my teeth 2, 2021 32.5 x 28.5 x 2.5 cm Oil on canvas
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      In my mind I have all my teeth 2, 2021
      32.5 x 28.5 x 2.5 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Nyasha Marovatsanga In my mind I have all my teeth 1, 2021 45 x 38 x 2.7 cm Oil on canvas
      Nyasha Marovatsanga
      In my mind I have all my teeth 1, 2021
      45 x 38 x 2.7 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Nyasha Marovatsanga In my mind I have all my teeth 3, 2021 45 x 38 x 3 cm Oil on canvas
      Nyasha Marovatsanga
      In my mind I have all my teeth 3, 2021
      45 x 38 x 3 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Nyasha Marovatsanga Over-Paid, 2021 85 x 75 x 2.6 cm Oil on canvas
      Nyasha Marovatsanga
      Over-Paid, 2021
      85 x 75 x 2.6 cm
      Oil on canvas
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    • Nyasha Marovatsanga In my mind I have all my teeth 4, 2021 66 x 44 x 2.8 cm Oil on canvas
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      In my mind I have all my teeth 4, 2021
      66 x 44 x 2.8 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Nyasha Marovatsanga Humiliated, 2019 143 x 90.5 cm Oil paint on canvas
      Nyasha Marovatsanga
      Humiliated, 2019
      143 x 90.5 cm
      Oil paint on canvas
    • Nyasha Marovatsanga Fading Smoke Screens, 2021 130 x 82 x 2.8 cm Oil on canvas
      Nyasha Marovatsanga
      Fading Smoke Screens, 2021
      130 x 82 x 2.8 cm
      Oil on canvas
  • “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.”

     

    - George Lakoff

  • About Tashinga Majiri

    About Tashinga Majiri

    Tashinga Majiri (b. 1993, Zimbabwe) graduated in 2019 with a Diploma in Fine Art from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe school of Visual Art and Design, specializing in painting and printmaking.

     

    Over the past couple of years, he has been working to develop his own approach which blends painting and printmaking together, working with monotypes on canvas interlaced with painting and spray paint.

     

    As a poet he is also interested in the engagement that is possible through subtle incorporation of automatic writing in his canvases, His works float in and out of figuration and have the quality of day dreams, an escape from the here and now into art and its possibilities.

     

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  • About Nyasha Marovatsanga

    About Nyasha Marovatsanga

    Nyasha Marovatsanga is a young artist based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Under the mentorship of Misheck Masamvu, he has developed a powerful painterly language, using gestural brushstrokes and bold colouration.

    He speaks of his work: "Sometimes, I go blank, then the portraits revive my everyday struggle. Sometimes I dream, then I reveal the dreams in my portraits. Sometimes I laugh, and the teeth show all the cracks. Sometimes, the sun shines too hot."
     
    Nyasha is represented in collections in South Africa, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe. He has exhibited with THK Gallery at 1-54 London and the Cape Town Art Fair. 

     

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  • About Lulama Wolf

    About Lulama Wolf

    Lulama Wolf (b. 1993) is a visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

    At the intersection of Neo-Expressionism and Modern African Art, Wolf interrogates the pre-colonial African experience through the contemporary mind by using smearing, scraping, and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture, and the patterns created largely by women to decorate traditional African homes.

    History and the proof of life are the core concepts in her work. Where there has rarely prior been reference of life in black spirituality, she counters that narrative by creating two dimensional paintings to embody the simplicity and deep spiritual power of the native eye. Her motivation is both tender and protective of her imaginary world, and her symbolic view of how her world looks into an alternate universe. She is set on creating both a photographic and graphic experience, that morphs and shapeshifts into a higher dimensional plane.

    "My work carries my spirit, before it carries a message. My intuition plays a vital role in the direction I go and then I compartmentalise with what I prioritise. I represent different parts of my self including abstraction, curiosity, mythology, spirituality and introspection. Blackness is vital in my work because it is created by a black woman despite the medium or language it speaks, it is vital because proof of existence is rare in the black community, information is shared but isn’t sustained in ways that are knowledgeable to us right now. I express my yearning for answers and clarity in ways that make my blackness clear even when the work is abstract. My practice embodies subtlety in a form of texture and expression, a curious mix of ambiguity and curiosity. I experiment with different textures and moulds that are formed from the earth."

     

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  • Press

    • Tashinga Majiri | Emerging Painting Invitational | Interview
      Press

      Tashinga Majiri | Emerging Painting Invitational | Interview

      October 10, 2020
      An interview with Tashinga Majiri, regarding his 2020 Emerging Painting Invitational Finalist award nomination. Watch the full interview here .
    • Daily Maverick | South African artist Lulama Wolf paints a personalised narrative of African artistry
      Press

      Daily Maverick | South African artist Lulama Wolf paints a personalised narrative of African artistry

      September 7, 2021
      An interview with and article on the work and practice of Lulama Wolf. Read the full piece here .
    • Lulama Wolf | Art X Lagos | Undulating Curves that Create Lithe Bodies in Space
      Press

      Lulama Wolf | Art X Lagos | Undulating Curves that Create Lithe Bodies in Space

      November 20, 2021
      An article by Nkgopoleng Moloi on the work and practice of THK Gallery artist Lulama Wolf. Read the full piece here .
    • Lulama Wolf | NewAfrican | Artists to watch at this year’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
      Press

      Lulama Wolf | NewAfrican | Artists to watch at this year’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

      October 14, 2021
      An article on artists to watch at the 2021 Edition of the 1-54 London Contemporary African Art Fair, featuring THK Gallery artist Lulama Wolf. Read the full piece here .
    • Artnet News | 5 Artists That the Artnet Gallery Network Is Watching in January
      Press

      Artnet News | 5 Artists That the Artnet Gallery Network Is Watching in January

      January 8, 2021
      An article on 5 artists to watch in January 2021, featuring Lulama Wolf. Read the full piece here .
    • Glamour South Africa | Getting to know Lulama ‘Wolf’ Mlambo
      Press

      Glamour South Africa | Getting to know Lulama ‘Wolf’ Mlambo

      November 22, 2021
      An interview with Lulama Wolf. Read the full piece here .
    • Art Times | Different Angles | February 2020 Edition | Nyasha Marovatsanga | Johno Mellish
      Press

      Art Times | Different Angles | February 2020 Edition | Nyasha Marovatsanga | Johno Mellish

      January 28, 2020
      A Featured article by Sven Christian on the show Different Angles . The show features two solo presentations by Johno Mellish and Nyasha Marovatsanga, and is on at THK Gallery...
    • Art Times | Ashraf Jamal | April 2020 Edition | Different Angles | Nyasha Marovatsanga | Johno Mellish
      Press

      Art Times | Ashraf Jamal | April 2020 Edition | Different Angles | Nyasha Marovatsanga | Johno Mellish

      March 25, 2020
      An article written by Ashraf Jamal, which highlights the show Different Angles. The online version of the full April 2020 edition of Art Times can be found here . Or...
    • The South African | THK Gallery at 1-54 London 2020
      Press

      The South African | THK Gallery at 1-54 London 2020

      October 9, 2020
      An article featuring THK Gallery's participation at 1-54 London 2020. Read the full piece here .
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