Cinthia Sifa Mulanga X British Fashion Council NEW WAVE: Creatives

South Africa-based painter and collagist Cinthia Sifa Mulanga has been selected as one of 50 creatives worldwide for the British Fashion Council NEW WAVE: Creatives, a support and exposure initiative for emerging creatives pioneering artistic excellence toward the future of fashion.

The British Fashion Council NEW WAVE: Creatives is a resource for the global fashion industry, one that highlights London’s position as an international hub of creativity. As part of this year’s NEW WAVE: Creatives, the group will benefit from a dedicated, sustained communications campaign, including international PR, year-round social media support across the BFC’s channels, and a purpose-built portal on The Fashion Awards website.

Represented by Latitudes Online, Cinthia was born in the DRC but the visual references and influences in her art are rooted in her adopted home of South Africa. Her works are defined by the mediums of painting and collage; a dual representation that brings together narratives of Western art history, popular culture and experiences of the contemporary African woman against their combined backdrop. The focus of her art is on the representation of Black women.

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“Through their depiction, I engage in different personas, emotions, or states of mind. Typically, I juxtapose several different women in my paintings, thereby highlighting the complexities of female identity, the stream of varying consciousnesses that occupy a single space, identity or moment in time. As such my paintings operate as multi-perspectival portraits while the spaces allow me to create open conversations and interrogate the notions of beauty,” explains Cinthia.

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