Kialy Tihngang
We're excited to present major new solo show from Cameroonian-British multidisciplinary artist Kialy Tihngang. Tihngang will explore the unstable territories between history, memory and representation. Working across moving image, sculpture, performance, textile, photomontage and writing, Tihngang examines the ways colonial narratives have shaped representations of West African cultures, while considering how these histories are fragmented, romanticised and reimagined within the diaspora.
Reimagining depictions of otherness and marginalisation using the visual language of Western mass media, Tihngang constructs an exaggerated world where satire, performance and absurdity become tools for interrogating Blackness, queerness and Britishness with humour as a strategy for survival, resistance and imagining new forms of belonging.
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Aritist Biography
Kialy Tihngang (b. Cardiff, 1994) is a Cameroonian-British multidisciplinary artist and researcher living and working in Glasgow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Glasgow School of Art in 2021 and is currently completing a PHD at the University of Stirling. Within a practice incorporating moving-image, sculpture, performance, textile, photomontage and writing, Tihngang examines the colonial European misrepresentation, suppression and demonisation of West African cultural practices – as well as her own personal misremembering, misreading and romanticisation of said practices. Incorporating elaborate and exaggerated handmade sets, costumes and props, her work merges Afropresentism, the dark humour of Nollywood and the visual language of Western mass media to explore Blackness, queerness, Britishness and the absurd structural oppressions that impact one’s lived experience of each.
Upcoming exhibitions
John Akomfrah: Listening All Night To The Rain
Trackie McLeod
Kialy Tihngang
Elizabeth Radcliffe
