Rahima Gambo is a Nigerian visual artist who came to artistic practice from photojournalism and by working independently on long form documentary projects.
2023 year exhibited in Biennial Find out more
She explores the experimental and conceptual territory between still and moving images as it intersects with documentary, psychogeography, socio-politics, ecology, and autobiography. Her practice ranges from drawing, video, sculpture, installation and sound, using them as extended poetic and speculative tools that enquire around documentary processes that lie outside pre-existing traditions.
Selected exhibitions include Bird Sound Orientations 2, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, Bird Sound Orientations 1, Stevenson Gallery Johannesburg, “Have you seen a Horizon Lately?” MACAAL, Morocco. The 11th and 12th Edition Recontre de Bamako, the Biennale of African photography, Mali. Mercosur Biennial, 12th edition—Feminine(s): visualities, actions and affections.
Liverpool Biennial 2023
Nest-works and Wander-lines (2021)
Rahima Gambo employs walking as an artistic practice, using movement as a meditative and creative process from which to weave a visual story. ‘Nest-works and Wander-lines’ (2021) and ‘Instruments of Air’ (2021) explore the origins of language, embodied and multisensory communication, and speculative storytelling. The artist places video clips on a timeline, similar to found objects in an assemblage or words in a cut up poem, to create an out of time and out of place territory. Underpinned by an improvised and open-ended approach, the video installation becomes a capsule for the artist’s fleeting experience of traversing a particular rural environment in Laongo, Burkina Faso, where Gambo spent three months in 2020. With a background in photojournalism, here Gambo proposes
Rahima Gambo employs walking as an artistic practice, using movement as a meditative and creative process from which to weave a visual story. ‘Nest-works and Wander-lines’ (2021) and ‘Instruments of Air’ (2021) explore the origins of language, embodied and multisensory communication, and speculative storytelling. The artist places video clips on a timeline, similar to found objects in an assemblage or words in a cut up poem, to create an out of time and out of place territory. Underpinned by an improvised and open-ended approach, the video installation becomes a capsule for the artist’s fleeting experience of traversing a particular rural environment in Laongo, Burkina Faso, where Gambo spent three months in 2020. With a background in photojournalism, here Gambo proposes an alternative to the documentary storytelling form, focusing on sensing rather than seeing and experimenting with new forms of non-verbal language. The works reject standardised and normative forms of communication, using movement, symbols, signs, gesturing, tracing and silence as preferred modes of understanding the world. Showing at Open Eye Gallery
Nest-works and Wander-lines (2021)
Showing at Open Eye Gallery
Tuesday–Sunday 10:00am–5:00pm
