Tewa Barnosa is a trans-disciplinary artist and independent curator from Tripoli, now based in Amsterdam. Her work explores socio-ecological turbulences, religious rituals, political mythologies and the future of Amazigh languages and scripts. Her practice spans visual arts and curatorial collaborations, including audio-visual installations, text, performance, and expanded paintings. Barnosa is the founder of WaraQ art space, a non-profit organization that aims to revive the Libyan art scene locally and internationally. Currently post-grad Sonology student at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and Alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten 2021-2023, Barnosa is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited at several institutions internationally. 

In this episode, we talk about languages and memory, poetry and knowledge production, political mythologies and concepts of ‘Truth’, nomadic archives and oral histories, archiving graffiti and Tewa’s VR performance at the exhibition Totalitarian Props , curated with Najlaa El-Ageli at the Africa Centre in London.

Artist website: https://tewabarnosa.com/
IG: tewa_barnosa

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