Artist 04 / 07
The figure becomes the seat of an inner resistance.
Biography
Democratic Republic of the Congo / Kenya
Merry Masheka deploys a taut acrylic painting focused on dissecting relational architectures and the making of identity. Working from the space of the diaspora, Masheka’s work captures the mechanisms of adaptation and resilience that govern contemporary human connections.
Refusing simple narrative portraiture, Masheka builds emotionally charged scenes in which the figure becomes the seat of an inner resistance. These compositions fix vulnerability and belonging in an economy of visual means that asserts the work’s presence without retrospective concession.
Threads Conference, online exhibition, Quebec, Canada
Works
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In the magazine
From Nigeria to the Congolese diaspora, four artists build images in which the figure takes back control. Intersecting perspectives on VELMO, Adedamola Onadeko, Iman Hassan and Merry Masheka.
Open call
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