Having made her U.K. debut at last year’s 1-54, Nelly Guambe (b. 1987, Chicuque, Mozambique) returns to Somerset House following her receipt of the inaugural Emerging Painting Invitational Prize in Harare, 2019. Guambe will exhibit both paintings and a new body of work on paper; best known for her portraits, the artist’s portrayals of women depict femininity as both shared and specific. What is, …
Having made her U.K. debut at last year’s 1-54, Nelly Guambe (b. 1987, Chicuque, Mozambique) returns to Somerset House following her receipt of the inaugural Emerging Painting Invitational Prize in Harare, 2019. Guambe will exhibit both paintings and a new body of work on paper; best known for her portraits, the artist’s portrayals of women depict femininity as both shared and specific. What is, and what isn’t, accessible to sight and sensibility.
Engaging and disrupting a colonial art history, Guambe’s practice seeks to pull archetypes of classical Western painting into settings for black …
