Gor Soudan’s practice incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and ceremony to reflect on social and environmental interrelationships. Working in series, Soudan considers how these relations transform both physical landscapes and imaginative inner-scapes. In his early career, Soudan created installation sculptures in response to the 2007 civil conflicts in Kenya. Human torsos woven from the charred wire from street protests reflected on the socio-political dynamics of human agency. Over time, his practice has evolved with a continued psycho-spatial exploration of markmaking, inhabitation and cohabitation.
Since 2019 Soudan has been based in rural western Kenya where his research has centred around the forms and materiality of handmade agricultural interventions into the landscape. Working with a collective of basket weavers and studying traditional weaving forms have informed a series of ink drawings, in which Soudan entwines patterns found in natural, virtual and architectural environments.
Soudan studied Sociology and Philosophy at Egerton University, Kenya. Selected solo and group exhibitions include: Dust Sheet Embroided Snow, Project Gallery, Arundel, UK, 2019; Kikulacho: Remains, waste and metonymy III, British Institute of East Africa, Nairobi, 2018; Tokyo A La Carte, Tomio Kayama Gallery, Tokyo, 2018; Imprints, Redhill Gallery, Limuru, 2016; Join the Dots, Circle Art Gallery, 2015. In 2014 he participated in the Backers Residency, AIT in Tokyo Japan, and in 2017 the ICAF residency in Lagos, Nigeria. Soudan’s work has featured in international art fairs including 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair in London, 2022 and Cape Town Art Fair, 2018, both with Circle Art Gallery.
