Kialy Tihngang

A photo of a sculpture of a woman's head and torso. The sculpture has curly hair and is painted blue.

A large tented figure is displayed in a hall. It is wearing a long blue dress and their hands are rested on their hips. In the centre of their skirt there is a parting where people can enter.

A ceramic figure of a nude woman with water spraying behind, surrounded in blue sparkly material.

A blue water fountain featuring ceramic nude figures is underneath a domed blue ceiling with walls decorated by sparkly blue fabric.

A film is projected on a dark wall. The still is a close up of a person's eyes, bathed in blue light.

A woman, painted all in blue, wearing a turban and a strapless top looks to the side. The background is of a wooded landscape.

Two women face each other, they are wearing white turbans. They look upwards. In the background is a wooded landscape.

A woman with long braids, wearing a crown, looks upwards in a dreamy fashion. She is painted blue. In the background is a waterfall.

A woman, painted all in blue, raises her hands with her eyes closed underneath a bright light.

A group of women, all bathed in a blue light and wearing turbans and traditional dress, look excited.

A photo of a sculpture of a woman with curly hair which is painted blue.

Kialy Tihngang is a multidisciplinary Glasgow-based visual artist working in sculpture, video, textiles, animation and photomontage, often in collaboration with performers and musicians, involving elaborate handmade sets, costumes and props. As a British-born Cameroonian, Tihngang’s research-based practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices. It is also about her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, primarily by designing artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures. The works combine the dark humour of Nollywood with the aesthetics of retrofuturism and satirise the visual language of advertisements aimed at mass Western audiences. Tihngang uses these tools to explore Blackness, queerness, Britishness, and the crushing structural oppressions that surround these personal themes in absurd ways.

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Kialy Tihngang

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