• Ama Mbundu
  • Ama Mbundu
  • Ama Mbundu
  • Ama Mbundu
  • Ama Mbundu

Ama Mbundu

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I have had a fascination with my iPhone since I began school at Parsons. I am interested in the information that it holds, as well as how much we as a society depend on our smartphones. A solution to unifying my various projects is by using my cellphone to show what it captured. For this installation I am allowing the viewer to go through something personal to me, my iPhone, and allowing them to see my content–not in some haphazard way, but the curated things which are most urgent to me. 

The viewer in the role of a spectator will have access NYC architecture, boats, skin, and voice note projects. These sections are categorized by what I look at, what I hear, what I feel, what I write, and including lastly, erased history. Additionally, the viewer will interact with a tree that is native to my home while they watch the content on my phone, forcing entry into my living environments.


Bio: “When I was a child in Kampala, my dad took me to the clinic for malaria or something... When he left me in the room with the nurse, she began to prep the needle in order to give me a shot.I begged her to let me inject myself and she eventually allowed. I was no older than 5 years. I wrapped my small fingers around the needle and carefully jammed it into my body. In that moment, I found that seeing, understanding when and why I was in pain was less painful than shutting my eyes and looking away in blind anticipation and ignorance”. 26-year-old conceptual artist, Ama Mbundu, considers herself to be bicultural. A lot of her work has to do with analyzing the Black American experience through the lens of a Rwandese woman. Her current work focuses on sharing experiences that validate the insecure feeling that comes with being Black in America.
Contact: amachloe@gmail.com
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