Emma Prempeh: Wandering Under a Shifting Sun

Tiwani Contemporary is proud to feature the first of two solo presentations (the second in Lagos early 2025) by Emma Prempeh where pictorially she considers for the first time, landscape, and its relevance as an expansion of her hyperreal perceptions of home, belonging and memory. Her paintings depict events, people, interiors, places and still life from past and recent memories, emphasizing and representing the passing of time and the instability of memory. On occasion, Prempeh includes projected still or moving imagery, to invite experiential and performative encounters with her work.

Wandering Under a Shifting Sun accounts for recent shifts in Prempeh's personal life as she divides her time between London and Kampala, Uganda. Her experience of living between continents and developing new kinships and extended family, has overlapped with more established familial conversations around belonging in relation to her grandmother and mother's memories of St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean, and their subsequent migrations to London; and her Ghanaian father and the aspirations he has for the plot of land that he owns in West Africa. Pertinently, the artist's growing consciousness around decolonial and indigenous activism around land rights, and her migrant status as a newcomer to Uganda, has begun to expose greater nuance and complexity of her diasporan subjecthood. Wandering Under A Shifting Sun invites us to observe Prempeh's poetics of relation, manifest as a visual magic realist interpretation of the events and vistas shaping her life in this new series of paintings and installation.

On Saturday 12 October, 3-5pm, there is an exhibition walkthrough and conversation between artist Emma Prempeh and writer, artist, curator and academic, Dr Michael McMillan.

Emma Prempeh: Wandering Under a Shifting Sun: 4 October - 16 November 2024

Tiwani Contemporary, 24 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG, UK

Opening times:

Tue - Fri: 10am to 6pm 

Sat: 11am to 6pm

Further Information: Emma Prempeh | 4 October - 16 November 2024 

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