Coumba Samba

Coumba Samba is an artist living and working between London and New York. Samba’s work traces how power circulates through modernist abstraction and minimalism, drawing on everyday forms from the global built environment as evidence of the economic and political infrastructures that produce them. For her Chisenhale Gallery exhibition, Samba will produce a new large-scale sculptural installation that extends her forensic approach to colour. The installation will carry a bespoke powder-coat finish derived through digital spectrometry, continuing her investigation into labour, the movement of materials between regions, and how institutional structures come to shape individual and collective identity.