At Omoma Art, we sell limited edition art prints and original art of promising, emerging artists who are relatively under-recognized, and already established African artists. We connect our clients to African virtual artists selected by our team of experienced curators and appraisal experts.
NUKWASE TEMBO
Nukwase Tembo is a Zambian artist who lives and works in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. She is a college graduate with a Bachelor of Arts and a specialty in Fine arts.
Her work explores and challenges toxic societal norms that infringe upon women's rights and values. With an emphasis on post-colonial African nations where many borrowed and Western ideals have become the accepted norm and culture (supposedly fluid, dynamic, and subject to evolution), it is treated as an inflexible standard. The focus of her work is in normalizing blackness; to establish what it means to be black without disregarding the complexities that come with it. Her work also focuses on de-objectifying women's bodies where socially and culturally, women of color do not own their bodies.
Her body of work manifests mainly in mixed media oil paintings and collages that have traces of fabric and recyclable items. The use of fabric symbolizes the foreign ideals that have been inculpated into her rigid culture. In contrast, the use of ready to be discarded elements represents the value, resilience, and worth of women and humanity as a collective, who exist as disposable entities at the hands of a system designed to devalue them.
