At the Seams, Spilling
La práctica de Alexis Chivir-ter Tsegba parte de lo que ella describe como un “cerebro collage”: un modo transtemporal de pensar y hacer fundamentado en procesos de ensamblaje, deconstrucción, retorno y reconstrucción. Explora el collage no solamente como una técnica, sino como una manera de navegar el tiempo que encarna la naturaleza cíclica de la memoria. Su obra abraza la experimentación, la yuxtaposición irracional y el caos semi estructurado, permitiendo que el pasado, el presente y los futuros especulativos coexistan y se influyan mutuamente.
Al reunir piezas creadas entre 2021 y 2025, la exposición explora las maneras en las que la memoria y el tiempo viajan a través del cuerpo, el paisaje y el cosmos, todo ello articulado mediante simbolismos y lenguajes visuales africanos. Tsegba aborda la filosofía espiritual y la metafísica africanas desde la intimidad, la ternura y el deseo queer. En su obra, el tiempo se construye como algo no-lineal y relacional: los límites del cuerpo se vuelven porosos, el amor funciona en medida cronológica y el conocimiento ancestral emerge como fuerza viva que advierte y fundamente futuros posibles. El conjunto traza un arco personal y cultural, desde portales del porvenir, pasando por intimidades sostenidas en desplazamientos geográficos, hasta los rituales que conforman la experiencia diaspórica.
Obras de arte
Dambe, 2022
Detalles
Dambe serves as a visual threshold into the exhibition. The work evokes the cultural aesthetics of West African martial arts while simultaneously constructing a dreamlike, speculative space where the figures meet in both tenderness and aggression. This duality gestures towards the complex relationship among the Orisa, deities who often embody contradictions, shifting between protection and destruction, intimacy and provocation. The suspended encounter between the two figures becomes less of a “fight” and more of an unfolding cosmology, a choreography of forces negotiating power, vulnerability, memory and ode. Here, conflict and care remain in perpetual relation.
Medium: Digital still collage
Technique: Digital collage. Original Portrait by: Alexis chivir-ter Tsegba
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
Hold Space for me, 2022
Detalles
Hold Space for Me engages the Afro-metaphysical understanding that time is not linear but cyclical, recursive and profoundly relational. The body becomes a porous threshold, part landscape, part vessel, part echo, collapsing temporal distance into a single unfolding plane. The carved out negative spaces in the main figure’s back operate almost like temporal apertures: through them, silhouettes from different moments in time coexist, observing one another, becoming one another as past, present, and future continually leak into one another. The boundary, then, is not fixed but permeable.
Medium: Digital still collage
Technique: Digital collage. Original Portrait by: Ksenia Chernaya. Sourched from Unsplash
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
Seeker, 2024
Detalles
Hold Space for Me engages the Afro-metaphysical understanding that time is not linear but cyclical, recursive and profoundly relational. The body becomes a porous threshold, part landscape, part vessel, part echo, collapsing temporal distance into a single unfolding plane. The carved out negative spaces in the main figure’s back operate almost like temporal apertures: through them, silhouettes from different moments in time coexist, observing one another, becoming one another as past, present, and future continually leak into one another. The boundary, then, is not fixed but permeable.
Medium: Digital still collage
Technique: Digital collage. Original Portraits by: Alexis Chivir-ter Tsegba
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
Lover’s Moon II, 2023
Detalles
Lover’s Moon II is a romantic cosmology, an imaginary merging of celestial imagery with earthy textures that stages the moon as both witness and participant in human tenderness. The work performs the quiet, poetic work of cosmic alignment when desires align with celestial rhythms. It operates with both spiritual and sensual registers, presenting the moon and its cycles as an archive of tenderness between beings. Love becomes a ritual of timekeeping as both a lover stores stories. In this way, the lover and the moon are archivists.
Medium: Digital still collage
Technique: Digital collage. Original portrait by Anastasia Klimets. Sourced from Unsplash.
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
In Time, 2021
Detalles
In Time is a series of works that explores the belief that we must look back to inform the future. The works render time as cyclical and even disorienting, refusing linear progression in favour of temporal loops, returns and reconfiguration. Each piece proposes that futures emerge only through a deep engagement with what has come before, through ancestral memory and inherited knowledge. The divine feminine appears here as a carrier of these inheritances, the epitome of wisdom carried through generations, reshaped and projected into new speculative worlds.
Medium: Video
Duration: 0 min 22 sec
Technique: Digital collage animation. Original Portrait sourced from Getty Images
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
In Time II, 2024
Detalles
In Time is a series of works that explores the belief that we must look back to inform the future. The works render time as cyclical and even disorienting, refusing linear progression in favour of temporal loops, returns and reconfiguration. Each piece proposes that futures emerge only through a deep engagement with what has come before, through ancestral memory and inherited knowledge. The divine feminine appears here as a carrier of these inheritances, the epitome of wisdom carried through generations, reshaped and projected into new speculative worlds.
Medium: Video
Duration: 0 min 22 sec
Technique: Digital collage animation. Original Portrait sourced from Getty Images
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
In Time III, 2024
Detalles
In Time is a series of works that explores the belief that we must look back to inform the future. The works render time as cyclical and even disorienting, refusing linear progression in favour of temporal loops, returns and reconfiguration. Each piece proposes that futures emerge only through a deep engagement with what has come before, through ancestral memory and inherited knowledge. The divine feminine appears here as a carrier of these inheritances, the epitome of wisdom carried through generations, reshaped and projected into new speculative worlds.
Medium: Video
Duration: 0 min 22 sec
Technique: Digital collage animation. Original Portrait sourced from Getty Images
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT
Sound of a Bloom, 2025
Detalles
This work, the newest in this selection, leans into the metaphor of blooming as emergence, rebirth and cross-temporal unfolding. Similar to Hold Space for Me, past, present and future selves are seen in synchronicity, where Hold Space for Me is self-reflective, the figures in this piece inch upwards as if reaching towards the divine. Transformation echoes through this piece as to bloom is to die and to die is to return folded back into the cycle, the dreamscape of time.
Medium: Digital still collage
Technique: Digital collage. Original Portrait by: Ngozi Ejionueme
Includes a fine art print (unframed)
Edition of 3 pairs of artworks
€ 1,500 ex VAT