reviews

  • Cassi Namoda, Armando from Zambezi province late to meet beloved, a tragedy, 2020, oil and acrylic on cotton-polyester, 48 × 36".

    Cassi Namoda, Armando from Zambezi province late to meet beloved, a tragedy, 2020, oil and acrylic on cotton-polyester, 48 × 36".

    Cassi Namoda

    Goodman Gallery | Johannesburg

    Dreamlike pastel greens, browns, and blues punctuated “To Live Long Is to See Much,” Cassi Namoda’s first exhibition in Africa outside her birth country of Mozambique. The work of the New York– and Los Angeles–based artist insists on the reciprocal relationship of Western and African aesthetics and continues to shatter the myth of an African art that gives to the West but cannot productively receive from it. Her cheeky references to Western art history include an homage to Goya in We have become strangers (Fight with a javelin and boron). An ode to Goya (all works 2020) and one to Hieronymus

    Read more