Muralism in Conversation: A Walk Through the Murals
Tanka Fonta, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Alberto Pitta, Paz Guevara, and Cosmin Costinaș
Exhibition Walk
Su., 4.6.2023
12:00
Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall
In English
Meeting point: Counter in the Sylvia Wynter Foyer
Free entry
Activating the social dimension of murals, the stories they can tell, and their multi-sensorial resonance, artists Tanka Fonta, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, and Alberto Pitta offer an invitation to walk through their murals in the exhibition together with curators Cosmin Costinaș and Paz Guevara. Tanka Fonta opens up a conversational space, engaging the public to inhabit the mural as an ‘artistic storytelling in visual and sonic form’, discussing the non-western philosophical knowledges it disseminates. By intervening in the exhibition space with a mural that spreads depictions of braiding techniques across the floor, Nontsikelelo Mutiti reinvigorates their political liberatory geometries and invites visitors to cross the exhibition space while collectively decoding histories of emancipation. From his silk-screen studio in Salvador de Bahia, Alberto Pitta has transformed the facade of the HKW with a two-section mural featuring Yoruba deity Ogum and the communal housing of contemporary quilombos. Pitta hosts a visual storytelling session to delve into the spiritual, political, and visual dimensions of his work.