Artist Talk with Adama Delphine Fawundu and Orlee Malka
Methodologies of art making within forms of collapse
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
6:00 - 7:30 PM PST
On December 8th, join SF Camerawork and artists Adama Delphine Fawundu and Orlee Malka as they discuss methodologies of making during times of unrest and upheaval. Considering issues of value and ethics, both artists practice undoing supremacy modes of productivity and instead offer a retelling of histories through ancestral language and convening of care and gentleness. These modes of creating have been embedded within their studio practice and both artists have considered storytelling as a form of untangling the ties of exploitation and exclusion.
Adama Delphine Fawundu’s art zine hala: an unexpected gift is featured in our Book & Zine Fair. The inaugural issue titled, “for our grandmothers” features interdisciplinary artist Orlee Malka.
ABOUT ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photo-based visual artist and visual consultant born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Ms. Fawundu is a co-author/editor of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. This book features over 100 women photographers of African descent from around the globe. Her most recent works investigates the spiritual, cultural, and ideological pre-colonial ways of being that were disrupted by voluntary immigration, colonialism, and distorted within the African Diaspora through oppressive systems stemming from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Fawundu uses photography, video, sculpture and printmaking to create new trans-historical identities as she explores Afrofuturist ideas.
ABOUT ORLEE MALKA
Orlee Malka is an artist and writer living in New York. Her work considers the erasure and collective consciousness of diasporic histories and expands on models of making and planning within cultures of loss. Her conceptual and collaborative work considers the possibilities of art practice within forms of collapse. Malka graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University in 2018, and in 2018-19 was a fellow at the inaugural Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, New York.
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