PROJECTS

Created in 2023, the scrolls are composed of images of the rich textual surfaces of the Malawian dugout canoe, which we have gathered since 2017, nailed and glued to driftwood and other flotsam material found on the shores of Lake Geneva and other lakes.

Featuring a gule wamkulu mask almost submerged in water, “Submergent Poetry” is a series of nine photographs of performance and rhyming text taken in Lake Malawi...

Subaltern Speakers is part of a larger project titled “Pamtondo as a an Afrofuturist Platform for a Feminist Aesthetics and Ethics” which re-appropriates the empowering elements of women practices in the kitchen and other domestic domains for a feminist aesthetics and politics in the digital era.

The Ozhomobile is a term we coined by combining the words “Ozhope” and “automobile”. It describes a truck fitted with a billboard we use to showcase our art to the masses in the city streets of Lilongwe.

Row 3 celebrates the dugout canoe as a life-object of the fishing communities of Lake Malawi, with patches of vinyl carrying images taken by Ozhopé. Sculptures reveal the canoe as totem, give it flowers, or transform it into an ancestral space-time shuttle.

This project focuses on issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi...

Row 2 focuses on the aesthetic transformations of the Malawian dugoutcanoe due to its long exposure to natural elements and also due to repair....

Row 1 consists of performances and temporary sculptures with the dugoutcanoes used by fishers on the shores of Lake Malawi....

This project took the work produced in Row 1 and 2 to Zomba Fish Market with the aim of igniting conversations among fish vendors...