Victor Mutelekesha, Rise to the Ashes, 2009. Mixed media sculptural installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Victor Mutelekesha (b. 1976 in Chililabombwe, Zambia, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) works with recurrent issues pertaining to the human condition, which he confronts through different perspectives and mediums. In particular, the artist focuses on the displacement of the human, which is generated by repressive manipulation and the increasingly visible social and environmental breakdown of cultures permeated by war and death. His work emphasises symbols, emblems and prejudices that are calling to be urgently analysed in the perspective of a real, ongoing and irreversible process of cultural contamination. Mutelekesha received his MA from the National Academy of Art in Oslo in 2007. He has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the International Culture Centre and Museum in Oslo, the Gallery Palazzo Tito in Venice and the Henry Tayaly Art Centre in Lusaka, among others. Previous group exhibitions include the 10th Havana Biennial, Videoholica in Varna, Bulgaria and Galleri Fisk in Bergen.
