When I´m free

The piece "When I´m Free" in sparkling colours were created by Lakwena and Abimaro during No Limit Street Art Borås 2017. The title is fetched from a prahse in the song "Fever" by Abimaro (Lakwenas sister) and the typeface in the painting is inspired by a logo of a traditional shoe store in Borås.

Lakwena Maciver is a London-based artist exhibiting work internationally, both in galleries and in the public environment. Her work is inspired by adornment, and its use and power as a means of communication. Informed by decoration both aesthetically and conceptually, she explores the messages that decoration is used to communicate, its traditional use in worship and myth-making and how this translates into contemporary popular culture.

Concerned with the significance of how and who we decorate, and what this reflects about our values and beliefs, Lakwena positions kaleidoscopic colours, bold pattern and adornment as powerful signifiers to redefine and reassign value and glory. Using words as both images and as anchors of meaning, she borrows from the techniques and conventions of traditional sign-writing and contemporary graphic design.