Rehema Chachage

Rehema Chachage is a contemporary multimedia artist, writer and researcher from Tanzania. She is mainly known for her non-traditional media (re-)creating African stories, rituals and oral traditions about matrilinear experiences. For this, she uses art forms such as performance, photography, video, text and physical installations related to women in the Swahili region. Quotes "Art is incomplete until it is received by the viewer. Just as artists need to evolve, society needs to evolve as well." Rehema Chachage, How contemporary is Tanzanian Art? "“I think that is where the challenge for the Tanzanian artist is, i.e. their agency vs their context.” Rehema Chachage, How contemporary is Tanzanian Art? “Art does not (or should not rather) just appear—it is not created in a vacuum because artists are constantly supposed to be researching and referencing.” Rehema Chachage, How contemporary is Tanzanian Art? “My work, like my life is less interested in exploring and/or using the female body according to any set of beauty standard, but rather looking at the female body in its most private and intimate setting.” Rehema Chachage, How contemporary is Tanzanian Art? External links Category:Artists from Tanzania Category:1987 births Category:Living people