For NADA Miami 2025, Affinity Gallery presents Material Memory: Gesture, Body & Form — a dialogue between three powerful voices in contemporary African art: Anne Adams, Lulama ‘Wolf’ Mlambo, and Samuel Nnorom. Each artist offers a distinct yet interwoven approach to how materials, body, and identity inform memory, storytelling, and cultural heritage.
Anne Adamsexplores the performative nature of the Black female body through rich figurative painting, emphasizing posture, poise, and physical presence as sites of resilience and beauty. Her work centers the body as both subject and symbol, rendered through intentional stillness and strength.
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DLulama ‘Wolf’ Mlambo brings a spiritual, architectural sensibility to abstraction, drawing inspiration from vernacular structures, pre-colonial symbolism, and the textured patterning of Southern African cultures. Her deeply layered paintings invite introspection and evoke ancient visual languages through smearing, scraping, and symbolic form.
Samuel Nnorom pushes the boundaries of sculpture and textile, using foam and Ankara fabric to create vibrant bubble-like forms that blur the lines between painting, installation, and soft sculpture. His work speaks to socio-political memory, domestic labor, and the complexity of identity in postcolonial Nigeria.
Together, these artists examine how materiality becomes memory, how gesture becomes language, and how the body becomes both archive and canvas. The booth will create a sensorial and emotional space where painting, sculpture, and textile converge to evoke personal and collective narratives rooted in Africa, yet resonant globally.
