b. 1980, United Kingdom
For Gbewonyo, weaving is an intrinsic part of her identity: forming part of the Ewe tribe’s way of life and storytelling, its processes are heralded as meditative and healing and its origins cosmic – bedded in the myth that spiders taught the Ewe’s to weave. A tale she learnt in later years on artistic pilgrimage, it has generated her long-held obsession with the spider’s web.
Enam Gbewonyo (1980, London) lives and works in London. She has exhibited with galleries and institutions such as: Tafeta Gallery, Bonhams, Gallery 46 Whitechapel, New Ashgate Gallery. she has made performances for Christie’s, Hogan Lovells LLP, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, for Arts Territory’s Palace of Ritual which was part of the collateral program of the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, and more recently a livestream performance to activate the exhibition of fellow artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain.