23/08/2025
The power of Art
In this weekend’s Namibian we find an article on the artist Tuli Mekondjo and her exhibition of a ‘powerful mixed-media work: Kwariri Nyoko Kevako: echoes of the Matriarchs’ which is currently being exhibited and purchased by the German parliament. Good for her. She has had a number of other successful and surely very rewarding exhibitions in various renowned and famous galleries and art fares, always portraying the same theme, i.e. trauma, colonialism, racism, disrespect etc.. “She is shaping new (?) visual revisionist histories about Namibia, and African societies more broadly, in the context of long struggles over memory and memorialisation”, Anne Hambuda writes in that article.
Whilst there is always place for art to constantly remind us of past miseries etc., themes that are clearly in great demand, we at WHUDA MARBLE ART wish to be rather more forward looking and hope inspiring. The past is past and cannot be undone. But the future is still ahead of us. It’s not there yet, but we have the power to shift reality into a positive direction, moving from victim to victor by celebrating happiness and reshaping the history still to come. Do we really need constant reminding of tragedy, something current generations had no part in causing, dragging the viewer, particularly foreign viewers, into a perpetual and almost accusatory, pitiful and compassion seeking spiral downwards? Should we not rather look forward towards a brighter and more forgiving future, a future with potential and energy? That is what our marble sculptures do. They take the beauty of our landscape, the people, fauna and flora, the clear skies, sunlight and pure air, into another level of inspiration and love, unifying everybody towards a common cause, to celebrate Gods creations.
Below the artwork by Tuli Mekondjo and ‘The power of fire by Wolradt Sitole and Abstract evolution by William Chindoko
