Our
teacher in the university gave us an interesting assignment, well the
course itself is interesting, so I went searching for an artist that
isn't that known and I found Jim
Chuchu. He's a Kenyan
freelance artist and photographs. He produces great short films. He
does write his own music or lyrics and he's also a visual artist. He
always updates his website, which is great for people whom search
more information about the artist. Not every artist does that, so you
have difficulties about having a profound information about the
artist itself. So the best way is to contact those artists. To get
closer to the public's view nowadays is making an instagram, twitter,
facebook, etc. accounts to make yourself more “famous”,
I do not know if this artist is up for being famous or just keeping
it underground.
Series 2013
Series 2013
He made these kind of series in 2014, which in my
opinion has another beauty or message than the series in 2013. In
these ones I feel like these persons on the images are struggling of
leaving their inner truth behind or are getting hunted by false
thoughts. It's like they're so much in pressure (or pain) that their
bodies are closing in to one fractal.
Series 2014
Series 2014
Series 2014
Some
of you now have a question mark about his talent in singer - song
writer abilities. Well in fact this artist made his second step,
before he studied telecommunications, in a band in 2008 called Just
a band. Which in my opinion is a
great name, but the interesting part is that he co-produced first
three studio albums, Scratch To Reveal,
82 and Sorry
For The Delay. He didn't just
co-produced the bands albums, but he also created the art cover for
the band and directed the band's videos. For more informations about
his life and work you can check his website.
To Catch A Dream from The NEST Collective on Vimeo.
Now
if we come to his artworks or short films, which short films are a
definition of Art too, his works were displayed in many exhibitions.
Such as Contemporary African Art Fair (New York),
Addis Foto Fest (Ethiopia),
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
(Germany), Mediations Biennale Poznan (Poland),etc.
The next photographs you're going to see are one of his project The
Pegans. These photographs that
he made are astonishingly mesmerizing, the African culture or the
African beauty is exploding in these pictures. Mostly the pictures
are black and white, but the gloom between those flesh and bones are
a reflection of a spiritual belief in Africa and Chuchu made that
purely clear. He's talent has to be seen in the world, because he can
turn his artworks in words like magic. I would like to see them in
one of our Museums/Exhibitions in Belgium!
The
Guardian defines that “This
series by Kenya’s rising talent reconstructs anonymous African
deities as a way to explore pre-colonial religious practices in
Africa”.
Don't
forget to check him out! He has many short films with deep meanings. Here is his vimeowebsite.
You're
free to discuss or share your thoughts about his artworks.
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Meltem
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