Sandra Mujinga plays with economies of visibility and opacity, negotiating questions of identity, self-representation and surveillance and working across text, sculpture, performance, and dance as well as the internet and the digital image.
Her practice has been described as questioning “what it means to exist in the dark,” highlighting the conflicting nature of visibility, which, whilst serving as an ever-expansive platform for promoting diversity and difference, simultaneously increases unwanted surveillance and data collection. To combat this, the artist suggests that humans need to become more adaptable to their environments, exploring within her work the survival strategies employed by animals that change their bodily features to adapt to their surroundings. Mujinga is deeply inspired by science-fiction, Afrofuturism and the idea of the ‘post-human’ as a speculative and political gaze envisioning alternative worlds at the intersection of technology, human and animal.
Sandra Mujinga (b. 1989, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Oslo, Norway.