Kialy Tihngang
Cardiff, UK, 1994
British b. 1994 Born in 1994 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.
Kialy Tihngang is a Glasgow-based Cameroonian-British artist and researcher. She works in moving image—utilising elaborate handmade sets, costumes, graphics, props, and collaborations with other practitioners—as well as sculpture, textiles, performance, and writing.
Tihngang’s practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, as well as her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of these practices, fabulating artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures.
Her work employs Afro-presentism, the dark humour of Nollywood, and the visual language of Western mass media to explore Blackness, queerness, Britishness, and the many absurd structural oppressions surrounding these personal themes.
