Sarah Ndele
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Oracle Woman
Acrylic on canvas, 80 × 60 cm.
Sarah Ndele
Sarah Ndele is a visual artist based in Kinshasa whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and performance. Her work is rooted in what she describes as “keeping the root”, a commitment to staying connected to histories that are often forgotten, particularly those of women.
Drawing inspiration from figures such as Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Kimpa Vita, and Joan of Arc, she does not replicate the past but reimagines it, bringing these histories into dialogue with the present. For Sarah, art is not only a visual language but a way of restoring erased narratives, and reactivating strength across generations.
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Oracle Woman presents a figure who is both guardian and witness. She stands in motion—alive with colour, layered with handwritten marks, surrounded by symbols that resist fixed interpretation.
Created in response to the violence affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the painting refuses to portray women as victims. Instead, the central figure embodies a different kind of power: protective, attentive, and enduring.
The staff she holds signals leadership and authority. The surrounding forms—sometimes read as wings or birds—suggest spiritual strength rather than escape. Across the surface, handwritten gestures accumulate like memory itself: fragmented, repeated, insistent.
Small but striking, the cat paw prints scattered across the canvas evoke quiet presence—women who move carefully, protect silently, and leave traces that cannot be erased.
The palette – warm, luminous, layered – speaks of tenderness as strength. Here, softness is not fragility but a form of resistance.
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Title here
Oracle Woman presents a figure who is both guardian and witness. She stands in motion—alive with colour, layered with handwritten marks, surrounded by symbols that resist fixed interpretation.
Created in response to the violence affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the painting refuses to portray women as victims. Instead, the central figure embodies a different kind of power: protective, attentive, and enduring.
The staff she holds signals leadership and authority. The surrounding forms—sometimes read as wings or birds—suggest spiritual strength rather than escape. Across the surface, handwritten gestures accumulate like memory itself: fragmented, repeated, insistent.
Small but striking, the cat paw prints scattered across the canvas evoke quiet presence—women who move carefully, protect silently, and leave traces that cannot be erased.
The palette – warm, luminous, layered – speaks of tenderness as strength. Here, softness is not fragility but a form of resistance.
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