Lessia Ledi Mbala
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If my work were to be an object, it would be a roving bridge.
They vary in shape and size, placed in between two objects that should not coexist, but, in this vast and expansive world, where everybody is connected in various degrees, can and do. However, I am not interested in peaceful coexistence. It was Kierkegaard who had stated, ‘life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards’ and it is this tension where we have all found ourselves, cold, naked, shivering, clawing at the seams of the Venn diagram.
This is not unfamiliar to me, as I have existed in the in between, the not quite for a while. In order to make myself home here, I write about what I see. For one project, I watched as Frances Bacon built a bridge between himself and an artist he admired and wondered why I was unable to do the same; for my extended research, it was the act of stammering, an old friend, that took a seat beside me and told me of its place in between life and death.
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