Agnes Waruguru: What the Water Left Behind: Circle Art Gallery
Current exhibition
Overview
"I really want people to relate to the work, that it has an effect on you, to be surrounded and transported to a specific place… assembling fragments where all the works bounce off each other and give each other context, a landscape of sorts"
We are delighted to announce the opening of What the Water Left Behind, a solo exhibition by Agnes Waruguru which opens next week, Wednesday 20 November at 6pm.
Waruguru’s second solo presentation at Circle brings together a series of works created over the past two years alongside new works from 2024 spanning textile, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, glass, needlework, natural pigment making and installation. Waruguru’s work is often connected to their lived experience in the world, reflecting on human interaction with the earth, connecting this with the inner self. Touching on themes of time, traditional cultural practices, memory, invented memory, grief, spirituality and elemental sensibilities. Many of the works use water as a main medium or tool for making, thinking of water as an archive, an active messenger and maker. Additionally, through the repetitive gestures, the installations and multi-media works act as a remembering and cleansing held with care and slowness. A space for listening, a space for waiting.
"I really want people to relate to the work, that it has an effect on you, to be surrounded and transported to a specific place… Assembling fragments where all the works bounce off each other and give each other context, A landscape of sorts"
Waruguru received a B.F.A. in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA in 2017. She has participated in residencies at the Rijksakademie van beldeende Kunsten in Amsterdam, ArtSpace Sydney, Saba Artists Residency in Lamu, VideoBrasil Biennial Artists Residency in Boicucanga, Brazil. Waruguru participated in the inaugural edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa, 2020. She has been nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2022, at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. She Participated in the 22nd Edition of the Videobrasil Biennial in São Paulo. Waruguru is currently showing in the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere.
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