Multimedia exhibition by UK-based Malawian artist Samson Kambalu opens at PEER
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Multimedia exhibition by UK-based Malawian artist Samson Kambalu opens at PEER
Samson Kambalu, Untitled, sewn polyester flag, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry London.



LONDON.- PEER opened a multimedia exhibition by UK-based Malawian artist Samson Kambalu (b.1975) including up to ten new film projections alongside other work. Samson Kambalu: Postcards from the Last Century opened on 24 January and runs until 28 March 2020. Admission is free.

Samson Kambalu’s approach to making art is akin to his approach to life – ‘I think about life as a creative project’ he says. This ethos is derived from his knowledge of 19th and 20th century Western philosophical thought, richly blended with and viewed through a lens of multiple and merging belief systems as experienced during his youth.

The films presented at PEER were shot during Kambalu’s recent research trip to the Black Forest in Bavaria, visiting Heidegger’s Hut and Bayreuth, the home of Wagnerian opera. His films have the look of found footage from early cinema and are often just a few seconds long, featuring the artist enacting a gesture or action – they have been described as ‘cinematic fragments that blend slapstick and spiritual ritual’. They have the look of found footage from early cinema, but the artist grounds his practice in Nyau culture – a secret society of the Chewa tribe, which is especially known for its ritual mask performances. Kambalu’s ‘Nyau Cinema’ is characterised by spontaneity, playfulness and a non-linear approach to time.

Alongside his films, Kambalu is showing work arising from his childhood memory of collecting bubble gum cards of the flags of the world. These national and sovereign identities are manipulated and dissected using smart phone technology to create images that adopt the ‘look’ of geometric Western abstract painting, and also resonate with the vibrant colours and bold pattering of African Kente cloth.

Kambalu’s often irreverent fusion of social, national and artistic tropes and identities is intentionally mischievous and provocative. His aim is to skew our reading of cultural behaviour and customs and to seek out the areas where humanity meets. Having become a fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford in 2018, Kambalu relishes the ceremonial and ritualistic customs of the scholarly life of privilege and the parallels that he draws from his Malawian upbringing.

Samson Kambalu (b. 1975) is an artist, author and academic. He was born in Malawi, where he attended Kamuzu Academy and then graduated from the University of Malawi's Chancellor College, Zomba with a BA in Fine Art and Ethnomusicology. He has an MA in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University (2003), and obtained a PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design (2015). One of his most well-known artworks is Holy Ball , a football plastered in pages of the Bible. He has shown his work internationally and was included in Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. His first book, an autobiographical narrative entitled The Jive Talker or How to Get a British Passport , was published in 2008. In 2018 Kambalu was appointed Associate Professor of Fine Art at Ruskin College and Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. Kambalu is represented by Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm, Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg and London and Kate MacGarry in London.










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