My work is a result of the different thoughts going on in my mind, or, what I would say are the noises of my mind. The way I react and place myself in this world is reflected in these ‘mind discussions’. When I make work I bring out my inner thoughts to interact with the outside thoughts. One calls me political but I would rather say I deal with social crises. Who names what and what right do they have?
Born in 1978 in Livingstone, Zambia, Annie Anawana Haloba completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at Lusaka’s Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce and recently graduated with a BA (Fine Arts) at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway. Haloba’s current work focuses on the body and on the implications and experience of mind/body resonance. Lamentations succeeds, through imagery and sound, in creating visceral and psychological effects in the viewer…