Artist Talk: Louise Mandumbwa

On the occasion of Louise Mandumbwa's debut solo exhibition, A World in the Creases of My Palms, Long Gallery Harlem presents a conversation between the artist and writer, curator, and researcher Shameekia Shantel Johnson. The discussion will consider memory, place-making, diasporic belonging, and the formation of personal and collective histories through material and image-making processes. Following the talk, guests are invited to a reception and a participatory tactile activity developed by the artist.

Mandumbwa (born 1996, Francistown, Botswana) works in painting, printmaking, and drawing to explore ideations of home through figurative and botanical works. Her practice is a counter-mapping endeavor that examines the ranging registers of memory through material exploration, the illegible image, and failed translation.

Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean ancestry from New York City whose work considers the multidimensional relationship between people, politics, narrative, and environment.