Tschabalala Self: Inside Out

Tschabalala Self is deeply engaged with the medium of painting. She paints with various pigments, materials, textiles and threads. Her unique technique includes found, acquired, and hand-­dyed fabrics. With these she creates figures that depict avatars rather than individuals. The artist draws from her personal experiences as a Black American woman. In this context she stages bodies that are often exalted and excluded within her imagined environments.

Her solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen brings together the largest and most diverse presentation of her multifaceted oeuvre to a museum to date. On display are nineteen canvases that exemplify Tschabalala Self’s artistic development, alongside several new sculptures that take her painting into the third dimension, further intensifying the play of fiction and reality.