Cinthia Sifa Mulanga – Intimate Spaces

This exhibition presents for the first time in Morocco the recent works of the artist Cinthia Sifa Mulanga. Following the cancellation of The Solo Project, which was to be held in Brussels from 21 to 24 April 2021, African Arty is exhibiting the works of the artist that were to be presented during the fair.

The exhibition Espaces Intimes is rooted in the artist's questioning of the constructions of beauty through her lived experience as an African woman and her surroundings. She creates moments in domestic spaces using different mediums such as acrylic with oil paint, charcoal, ink, collages from personal photographs and magazines. The female silhouettes represent the "perfect women" perceived by society through social media. The moments she creates in domestic spaces are dialogues between perceived standards of beauty and stereotypes that function to both challenge and embrace African women. The Barbie doll, the main source of inspiration in her work, is used with other female objects or symbols associated with African women, representing thoughts, misconceptions, perceptions and emotions. These spaces allow her to create conversations and question notions of beauty.

Cinthia Sifa Mulanga's work will be displayed in an Art Deco building, where it will interact with the walls and architecture of this particular style of Casablanca, which refers us directly to this notion of intimacy in space.