SAMSON KAMBALU, “Antelope,” 2021. The artist’s work won the Fourth Plinth Commission and will be installed in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2022. | Photo: James Jenkins, Courtesy Goodman Gallery
Awards & Honors
Oxford-based artist and writer Samson Kambalu won the Mayor of London’s Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square. Titled “Antelope,” his proposal re-stages a 1914 photograph of John Chilembwe (1871-1915), a pan-Africanist and Baptist preacher, and his friend John Chorley, a white European missionary. The photo was taken at the opening of Chilembwe’s new church in Nyasaland (now Malawi). Both are wearing hats at a time when colonial rule prohibited Africans from wearing hats in the company of white people. A year later, Chilembwe led an uprising against colonial rule. He was killed and colonial police destroyed his church. To further highlight the act of defiance and foreground Chilembwe’s story, the artist depicts him larger-than-life, while Chorley is portrayed life sized. Kambalu’s sculpture will be installed in 2022. | The Times of London
LUDOVIC NKOTH, In Search of Reparations, 2020. Acrylic on Belgium linen, 60 x 120 inches (152.5 x 305 cm). | © Ludovic Nkoth
Representation
François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles announced its representation of artist Ludovic Nkoth. Born in Cameroon, Nkoth grew up in South Carolina from the age of 13. Now based in New York, his first-ever major solo exhibition, “Don’t…
