Mimosa House presents the fourth chapter of transfeminisms, a major survey touring exhibition, that brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing and ongoing issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe. The fourth chapter will feature works by Sonia Boyce, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Lubaina Himid, Gulnur Mukazhanova, SaVĀge K'lub and Buhlebezwe Siwani.
Care and Kinship celebrates community, collective ritual, and ancestors. Artists work across various media including felt and weaving, film and sound, language and acts of collective making. Drawing on the sacred interconnectedness, the exhibition features acts of resilience, spirituality, and healing.
Unfolding over five chapters, transfeminisms outlines strategies of resistance through propositions of collective action, care and radical imagination, in order to generate a more equitable future. The exhibition explores the lineage of feminist art practices by facilitating dialogue between emerging and more established artists.
The title transfeminisms is deliberately provocative. The prefix “trans” implies ‘across, beyond, through, on the other side of’; while the ‘s’ in ‘feminisms’ recognises the innumerable definitions of feminism worldwide. Our intention is for transfeminisms to be understood within an inclusive and decolonial context– one that takes us across feminisms and encompasses various ‘trans’ possibilities, such as: transcultural, transcontinental, transgender, transformative, transgressive, transitory, translucent, transparent, transaction, translation, transfusion, transmission, transmutation.
