Magdalene Odundo performance about positive and negative space

about positive and negative space

Around her in the village her neighbours are arguing

Interconnecting with images of passages of texts from an eclectic collection of writers

And there’s her grandmother

and essays on humankind’s hunger to supersede the Other (in order to uphold what she calls “the vertically directed world”) in this artfully academic work

Magdalene Odundo performance about positive and negative spaceProduced for Magdalene Odundos first exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, this publication offers an intimate glimpse into the Kenyan born British artists work. At the heart of the presentation is a series of ceramic vessels, a form that has been a cornerstone of Odundos practice for nearly five decades. These vessels, refined in shape and rich in dualities, such as inside and outside, fullness and emptiness, and fragility and strength, draw inspiration from