wani toaishara
ARTIST, PERFORMER, PHOTOGRAPHY, INSTALLATION AND VIDEO
wani is a Congolese artist whose works span various mediums including photography, performance, installation and film. His practice explores Black life and representation, dislocation and Indigeneity as well as the effects of colonialism on Africa and its diaspora.
wani toaishara is an artist, and performer working across photography, installation, and video art.
His practice explores ideas concerning Africans, Blackness, Statelessness, climate change, and the effects of dislocation for those on the margins of movements and dialogues. wani has exhibited and performed at Arts Centre Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, Blak Dot Gallery, Wyndham Art Gallery, Arts House, and National Gallery Victoria, among other spaces. He has also received numerous awards and fellowships including a Green Room award, Arts House Evolution Award, Wyndham Art Prize, Darebin Art Prize, and most notably the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography award.
