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009 I Look to You (2025)
for Brexciya at Quench Gallery, Margate, UK(2025)

I Look To You is a body of work based on the formation of a spiritual/theological framework titled You; an alternate belief system; one rooted in a faith in movement rather than destination. One that is centred on the ellipse form. Ellipses as portals; signifiers of divergency; the ellipse as a deviation from uniformity-parallel to none and not perpendicular; ellipses as slippage; ellipses as spaces that resist flatness, as forms that always suggest a beyond.
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008 A Leap of Faith (2025)
A Leap of Faith is an eclectic compilation of small texts, collected and repurposed aphorisms, abstracted diaristic entries, a conversation transcript on faith and song lyrics. Each element comes together to conclusively form ‘You’, a speculative alternative theological framework based on the ellipse form.
Available in the Radical Sense Here Reader Volume 1, soft enclosures.
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(E)theric Mnemonics: Unfolding Reflections: Through Dreamt Springs of tRaNsFeRRari ♫
[𝘾𝙪𝙩 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜] 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔, 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆, 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ♫ (2025)

Research project in collaboration with Tawfik Naas

Research Presentation
Allotment, London
19th September 2025

Noetic Lecture
Art/Work Association at Auto Italia, London
24th September 2025

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006Gloriosa Superba (2023)
96 x 47 x 63 cm
PLA, epoxy clay, acrylic

An exploration of vulnerability, radical softness accompanied by an attempt to articulate a ‘black doll gaze’

The work is named after a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. It’s also called the Flame Lily and it is the National flower of Zimbabwe (Last image). They’re incredibly beautiful but also highly toxic as ingestion can be fatal. They contain Colchicine which is the toxin that causes the poisoning. Colchicine, if handled correctly, has healing properties and in specific doses is also used in medicine. I thought it would be a fitting name for a self portrait.

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Pre-Intertopia (2022)
Commissioned by Visual Carlow for Speech Sounds (2022)

Her
PLA, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
205 x 170 x 60 cm

Gourd
PLA, epoxy clay, Acrylic
85 x 21 x 20 cm

Portal
Sand
380 x 450 cm

004Untitled Drawings (2022)Commissioned by Visual Carlow for Speech Sounds (2022)

Untitled i
Oil stick on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

Untitled ii
Oil stick on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

Untitled iii
Oil stick on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

003Living Doesn’t Mean You’re Alive (2021)
Commissioned by Dateagle Art & Hervisions for Control the Virus Vol. 3. Kindly supported by Arts Council England.

Video, 17:15

“Living Doesn’t Mean You’re Alive (2021) is an introspective digital experience that follows a, once human, infomorph existing in cyberspace beginning to miss the physicality of their body. Reminiscing on what they used to have whilst also appreciating their new capabilities.

It’s a moment of questioning what truly fuelled their yearning to emancipate themselves from the confines of their biological human body. Was it the body itself? or was it the experience of inhabiting their body in the context it existed within? One which doesn’t value the body and centre the care for it.”

002It Was A Mix A Things (2020)
Commissioned by Arebyte Gallery for POWERPLAY, 2020.

The Gate
18 x 11 x 23 cm
Ceramic with silver glaze

Eywa
128 x 200 cm
Bespoke graphic rug

Support Structure
31 x 31 x 19 cm
Nylon

Untitled Print
170 x 100 xm
440 gsm PVC

001Evo’s Turn (2019)
Video, 4:25

‘Evo’s Turn’ explores Makumbe’s questioning of our conceptualisation of blackness and its form. The work explores a seemingly uninhabited extra-terrestrial terrain accompanied by a monologue performed by Makumbe’s Voice clone Evo. Within this, Evo questions its own inherent blackness, as an avatar created by Makumbe, in a way synonymous to an artificial intelligence questioning its own sentience, or better yet, its ‘human-ness’.

© Kumbirai Makumbe 2025