Close Looking: Queer African Art and FAMILY
- Mark Auslander
- Mar 21
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 13
These works explore family in queer African art through care, kinship, and belonging beyond traditional definitions.
They trace connections across biological and chosen relationships, reimagining what family can be.
Jim Chuchu
Invocation: The Severance of Ties (2015) and
Invocation: Release (2015)
A pair of video works exploring rupture and release, as the artist confronts familial rejection and imagines new forms of belonging.
Paul Emmanuel
Untethered/Retethered (2025)
Paul Emmanuel’s Untethered/Retethered reflects on bonds formed in military life, tracing forms of intimacy, care, and loss that echo familial connection.
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
Hossanna, hossanna (2018/2019)
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s Hossanna, hossanna brings together intimacy and uncertainty, presenting connection as something shaped within complexity and change.
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