About

Drawing from life in her hometown, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and her experiences growing up across Africa, the Middle East, and the United States, Malaika Temba's work examines diasporic histories, forming new narratives exploring labor, caregiving, and community. Her work insists on the presence of the human hand, examining the ways in which time and labor are often invisible in a highly globalized and networked society. In a woven and stitched constellation of traditional and digital processes of weaving, knitting, sewing, embroidery, and printmaking, an air of mass production is …