The opening reception for the Dallas Medianale 2019 is Saturday, May 18 from 6-9 p.m. The exhibition will be on view at The MAC through July 14.
Author Archives: Samson Kambalu
NYAU CINEMA AT CENTRE POMPIDOU
Binelde Hyrcan
Pierrick Sorin et Samson Kambalu
28 March 2019, at 20:00 (2h00)
Cinéma 1 – Centre Pompidou, Paris
Binelde Hyrcan, « Cambeck », 2011
Peintre et vidéaste, Binelde Hyrcan explore des récits socio-politiques issus du contexte où il vit, qu’il projette dans l’utopie. Dans sa vidéo Cambeck (2011), quatre garçons sont assis dans une voiture imaginaire creusée dans le sable à Luanda. Tournés vers la mer et vers l’horizon américain qui s’y dissimule, ils mettent en scène leur avenir. Entre espoir et misère, jeu et cynisme, ils jouent une saynète complexe où transparaissent des réalités contradictoires. D’autres vidéos ouvrent divers espaces de projection sociale, où le quotidien est envisagé comme véhicule de mythes ou comme le support matériel d’un cinéma « fait main », rappelant Méliès. Hyrcan accompagne ses vidéos d’extraits d’« autofilmages » parodiques de la série Pierrick et Jean-Loup (1994) de Pierrick Sorin, et de quelques scènes du Nyau cinema, cinéma burlesque « post colonial », de l’artiste londonien Samson Kambalu.
Séance suivie d’une discussion entre Binelde Hyrcan et Alicia Knock (conservatrice, Centre Pompidou).
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NYASALAND ANALYSAND
EXHIBITION OPEN AT GOODMAN GALLERY JOHANNESBURG
ON VIEW UNTIL 13 APRIL 2019
Nyasaland Analysand is Samson Kambalu’s second solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery. Working in film and multimedia installation, Kambalu draws on his Malawian upbringing surrounded by syncretic cultures such as the Beni and Malipenga to produce work that celebrates and interrogates the practice of integrating Western influences into local traditions and customs. Through references to a childhood brand of gum, the African Dandy, and Hollywood Westerns Kambalu tells a story highly personal in nature of the post-colonial cultural condition.
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND (TRAILER)
Samson Kambalu translated the film script of Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind into Chichewa and was a consultant on Chewa culture. He also acts in it as the shopkeeper Joe Gostein. The film premiered at Sundance 2019 and will be shown on Netflix (March 1) and in cinemas (February).
SAMSON KAMBALU TALK AT ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL
Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30 to 20:00 – Book:
FAST TALKER
CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE GIFT – SAMSON KAMBALU, TEDX ROMA
SERIOUS PLAY: SAMSON KAMBALU GRAPHOMANIA BY LOUIS BURY
“Films as fast as the blink of an eye.” – Review in Bomb Magazine
Samson Kambalu, Graphomania. Installation view. Image courtesy of the James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Photo: Samuel Draxler.
GRAPHOMANIA AT JAMES GALLERY, NY
Samson Kambalu’s multimedia film installation Graphomania goes on show at James Gallery, CUNY, New York from Tue, Dec 5, 2017 – Sat, Jan 13, 2018.
Samson Kambalu, I Cross a Photograph, digital film, colour, 2016
WOUNDED NEGATIVES – ZEITZ MOCAA
Samson Kambalu takes part in the inauguration of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art, Cape Town, South Africa with a solo show, a multimedia installation Wounded Negatives, on 22 September – 29 November 2017.
Samson Kambalu, Drawing in the 18th Century, digital film, colour, 2017
Exercise and exorcise 