MOTORMOND presents Nella Ngingo at Unseen Amsterdam Photography fair (at Booth 11)

For our first time at Unseen Amsterdam, we have commissioned a new series of photographs from the talented and now well established artist Nella Ngingo. Errant Black Girlhoods is a new series of photographs by Burundian photographer Nella Ngingo (1992, Burundi). With Errant Black Girlhoods Ngingo holds the sensitive space between masculine presenting black women and trans men. Ngingo has looked for the various ways black queer mascs perform errantry. Looking at the particular ways they run away from home, their wild and defiant jabs at self-making and how they return home, soft and agile in critical intimacy. Ningo’s subjects are well versed in the practice of gorgeous-handsome being in the world. 

No solo is ever done alone so Nella’s Errant Black Girlhoods is in conversation with many other black women; photographers Siomara Van Bochove, Bernice Mulenga and Keren Lasme, collage artist Thato Toeba, Shasha movies’ Róisín Tapponi, video artist Aida Aslaksen, and social activist DeLovie Kwagala.  

All design interventions by Sophie Douala.