Kialy Tihngang
Kialy Tihngang (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Glasgow-based visual artist working in moving image, sculpture, textiles, performance, writing, and prints involving elaborate handmade sets, costumes, graphics and props, often in close collaboration with other artists.
As a British-born Cameroonian, Tihngang’s research-based practice focuses on the global misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of Black, and particularly West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, primarily by designing artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures.
These artefacts combine the dark humour of Nollywood with the aesthetics of retrofuturism, and satirise the visual language of advertisements, films, and products 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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