A Power Invisible Keeps Us Here

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

The diptych drawing A Power Invisible / Keeps us Here is part of the ongoing Spirit series inspired by the description of spaces in Ben Okri’s novel Astonishing the Gods (1995), and shown at Narrative Projects, London (2019–20).

British-Namibian Libita Sibungu’s solo and collaborative projects explore performance, print, text, and sound to reflect/refract containers of memory. She creates installations and poems that are immersive, visceral and disruptive; applying techniques in collage to build a polyphony of voices that reposition notions of marginalised and hidden histories to expose gaps in dominant colonial narratives.

British-Namibian artist Libita Sibungu studied Print & Digital Media at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London (2006-09). She has exhibited and presented performances since 2016, with the solo exhibitions: ‘Quantum Ghost’, Gasworks, London and Spike Island, Bristol (2019); and ‘I’m not my...my injuries are healed now but I still don’t remember things’, Cabaret Voltaire, Switzerland (2019). Her work was included in the Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017). Selected awards include: Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England Fund, (2019-2020); Freelands Foundation Programme in association with Gasworks (2018-19); and Triangle Network Fellowship, Bagfactory, Johannesburg (2018).

Places

Subjects

text-based work

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), graphite, graphite drawing

Artist

Libita Sibungu (1987 - )

Title

A Power Invisible Keeps Us Here

Series Title

Spirit

Date

2019

Medium

graphite on paper - diptych

Dimensions

This work is in two parts. M, NEED TO MAKE A PART NUMBER. 19.07.2021

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist March 2021, through the Art XUK project 2020-21

Provenance

The artist; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 31 March 2021

GAC number

18964