bio ~ ongoing

senakirfa A. is an artist, poet, occasional weaver, and learner born and based in Amsterdam.
A.’s practice is grounded in the poetics of African Diasporic world-making in Amsterdam, rejecting and disclosing Dutch(ness)-ocularcentrism, and attuning to the audibility of ‘post-’colonial grief.

A.’s work across sculpture, screen printing, and writing is an extension of A.’s poetry practice, through which A. explores poetic in(ter)ventions — thought of by A. as “an amalgam signifying what African-Diasporic world-making ushers”.

contact

~ A. likes receiving emails: senakirfa@hotmail.com :-)



CV

education

2018 - 2022

TXT (Text, Textile and Context) Department

Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam


residencies

2022 - 2023

Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam


awards


2022

The First Sun

Awarded for Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards


2022

Anything is Possible, even Nothing is a Possibility(,)

Awarded for Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards



teaching/workshops

2024

Poetic Zine workshop, teacher

Nowhere Foundation -  Amsterdam


published works



2022


The First Sun 

designed by Jung Yeon Kim - Amsterdam





2022

Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), publication

designed by Jung Yeon Kim - Amsterdam



ongoing projects


the monthly exchange of/between poetic endeavors,

Amsterdam


(syntax) to Become: an ongoing Reading exercise <> Collective Read,

Amsterdam





solo shows


2022

Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,)  

at OSCAM 

Amsterdam



2021

Gazing Through the Distance (sequel)

at KLAUW Collective 

Rotterdam



group shows  & sound/poetry performances

2024

Sound & Poetry performance

Vocal Opacities: Continuing Fold

at Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam



2024

Group show

Baby Reni: @ HOME #2

at the Baby Reni Foundation, Amsterdam




2023

Sound & Poetry Performance

Manifestation #1 Listening Session Buro Stedelijk

at Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam



2023

Group show

Ik Zie Je exhibition

at Amsterdam Museum - Amsterdam




2023
Group show

Airmax Day 2023 Give Fresh Air - NIKE x Maha exhibtion

at Looiersgracht 60 - Amsterdam




2023

Sound & Poetry Performance

Unpacking Boijmans Museumnacht

at Boijmans Museum - Rotterdam




2023

Group show

END END AND

at Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam




2022

Sound & Poetry Performance

Vocal Opacities

at Rietveld/Sandberg Library - Amsterdam




2022

Sound & Poetry Performance

On Honouring Joy and Sorrow  

at Gemaal op Zuid - Rotterdam




2022

BA Graduation show

Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,)

at Gerrit Rietveld Academmie - Amsterdam

Nominated and selected for Rietveld Review(ed)




2022

Group show

I Am Because You Are

curated and initiatedby Iriée Zamble & Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam




2022

Group show

Routes & Roots  

organised by SALWA foundation & Goethe Institute - Amsterdam