NAMSA LEUBA

vendredi 13 août 2021

Exhibition 2021

- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (UK)

- 6th edition of the Photo Vogue Festival, Milan (IT)
- RegardsCroisés "Afrique de l'Ouest", Ouagadougou (BF)
- Festival de photographie Alt.+1000 (CH)
- Mutantes. Les femmes dans les collections, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel (CH)
- Photo London (UK)
- The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Les rencontres d'Arles (FR)

mercredi 19 août 2020

Illusion - The Myth of the Vahiné through gender Disphorya

NAMSA LEUBA

Illusion - The Myth of the Vahiné through gender Disphorya

LIVE NOW until - October 7, 2020

Swiss Guinean Photographer Namsa Leuba is back for another exhibition with Boogie-Wall following the group exhibition Notre dame / Our Lady in fall 2019.

For the first time the artist’s work has been digitalised to offer you a virtual exhibition included some unseen works from her recent project, Illusion.

The Serie Illusion, was created in Tahiti and inspired by the paintings of Paul Gauguin and “tropical” images in Modern art, which occupy the Western collective unconscious.
This type of imagery casts the Polynesian woman as beautiful, desirable, subservient, and connected to the natural environment.
This myth of the “vahine”, as Polynesian women are referred to, is historically rooted in the West’s search for the “original” and “authentic”, which was thought to be found in far away cultures, with a connection between the body, soul and land.

The subjects in Leuba’s contemporary portraits act out their role of the “vahine”, yet through non-binary definitions of gender conformity. Her sitters are known in Tahiti as “Mahu” (an effeminate man) or “rae rae” (transgender).
Leuba stages the fictional narratives with a painterly sensibility. The models distinguish themselves with colorful cosmetics and body paint, creating a surreal sense of beauty and strangeness. They blend into nature, like creatures between myth and reality. They symbolize their identity through the incarnation of the spirit, by the image beyond the confines of the body.

We invite you to immerse yourself for a memorable virtual exhibition experience, by clicking the link below!

https://onlineviewingroom.com/exhibition/e000941/

@namsaleuba, @boogie_wall @walterscube

jeudi 27 février 2020

You are welcome to see my work "illusions" Tahiti at Caelum Gallery, New York in April

mardi 10 décembre 2019

Namsa Leuba for Dior Cruise 2020

My new collaboration with Dior - Glad to be part at a such amazing project
Thanks @dior #jadior ❤️
@NamsaLeuba is no stranger to Dior collaborations, having put her stamp on the #DiorLadyArt. Today, she steps behind the camera for #DiorMagazine, lensing the #DiorCruise 2020 collection by @MariaGraziaChiuri and exploring contrasts between African architecture and the richness of the motifs created by @Uniwaxciv. ⁠⠀#namsaleuba

©Namsa Leuba for Dior Cruise 2020

lundi 21 octobre 2019

A glitch in the system deconstructing stereotypes - Photo Vogue festival

Glad to show my work « illusions » Tahiti at Photo Vogue festival in Milano 💋🙌🏽🌴many thanks at Alessia Glaviano, Francesca Marani and all the team #photovogueitalia #namsaleuba #illusions #tahiti #frenchpolynesia #photo #vogue #magazine #italia

©Namsa Leuba "illusions"

Gauguin' s strange, beautiful and exploitive portraits - BBC

Namsa Leuba talking about her Gauguin inspiration with BBC News...
Her photographic portraits series entitled "Illusions – The Myth of the Vahine Through Gender Dysphoria" is to be discovered on Notre Dame / Our Lady Exhibition until October 27th !

©Namsa Leuba "illusions" - BBC

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191017-gauguins-strange-beautiful-and-exploitative-portraits?fbclid=IwAR3XiktP_GNQzKQrpfQ0gbuof09b01ZgwgkrDTmyKrOFf_2EZ4qrLy4LDus

Vivid portraits shine light on Tahiti's 'third gender - CNN interview

©Namsa Leuba - CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/namsa-leuba-photographer/index.html?fbclid=IwAR36PCXBz9HCTQxXDYbeFHsgVwFfXIyDQcpiakuovY_Yhg2Wa2_UKSRQnj8

jeudi 19 septembre 2019

The New Black Vanguard

*** Glad to be part of this group show and book “The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion” - Antwaun Sargent & Aperture NYC @aperturefnd

Artists featured include: @campbelladdy; @ariellebobbwillis; @micaiahcarter; @awolerizku; @nadineijewere; @quillemons; @namsaleuba; @renellaice; @tylersphotos; @jamalaun; @iamdanielobasi; @ruthossaistudio; @adrienneraquel; @danascruggs; @stephen.tayo; Designer: Life of the Mind @marklifeofthemin

Africa State of Mind

I am glad to be part of this amazing group show who opens today at the MoAD in San Francisco.

Africa State of Mind, my touring exhibition, opens in San Francisco today at @moadsf. The show explores the work of a rising generation of photographers from across the African continent. it looks fantastic in the venue - many thanks for the whole team there for such great work on the installation. The image here, ‘The Last Journey of the Dictator Mussunda N’zombo Before the Great Extinction’ is by Kiluanji Kia Henda, whose work addresses questions of history, politics, collective memory and the legacy of colonialism, all with a certain sly wit.

Challenger

Glad to be part at that group show

Challenger, du 7 septembre au 13 octobre 2019 à la Ferme de la chapelle. Exposition carte blanche à Simon Paccaud qui invite :
Jean Angelats (Atelier J&J)/ Léo Bachiri Wadimoff/ Hugo Baud/ Rémi Brandon/ Loucia Carlier/ Valentin Carron/Pietro Castano/ Guillaume Dénervaud/ David Keshavjee/ Thomas Koenig / Charlotte Krieger / Stéphane Kropf / Namsa Leuba / Sébastien Loopes / Guy Meldem / Maxime Plescia-Büchi/ Emmanuel Rey / Charlotte Rocchi / Sibylle Stoekli / Agathe Zaerpour.
Plus d'information sur www.fermedelachapelle.ch