“I knew from a young age I had to learn how to take care of myself in a system that showed preference for boys.' Artist Billie Zangewa speaks to enumaokoro
Billie Zangewa. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo by Andrew Berry. In 2010, using raw silk fabric and threads, Johannesburg-based South African–Malawian textile artist Billie Zangewa hand-stitched and embroidered an image of a larger than life Black woman rising up from the urban cityscape of Johannesburg.
Soldier of Love, 2020. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Her commitment to self-examination has at times meant reexamining narratives she picked up as a child born in Malawi, and later raised in Botswana. “My Malawian father was born free and he was educated,” she explained. “But gender roles in Malawi were traditional. Women stayed at home minding children while the men went to work and made money.
Birthday Party, 2020. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. It was also the place where, Zangewa said, she saw her mother and other women find strength and healing in the quotidian: sewing, nurturing their children, and making homes for their families.
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