This new body of work presented in the exhibition ‘Up to No Good', is the newest addition to the artist’s ongoing project ‘Mawu Nyonu’. Mawu Nyonu (roughly translated from Ewe as ‘God is a woman’) is a fictional secret society of Reindorf’s imagination that explores deviance and nonconformity through the art of masquerading. The paintings that feature in this exhibition serve as an initial visual introduction to the seven characters (referred to as skins or 'Glanu') that make up Mawu Nyonu.

Pulling inspiration from her own lived experiences as well as historical descriptions of the Mino warriors, the Dahomean all-female military regiment, and the hierarchies in Vodun cosmology, Reindorf explores themes of world-building and storytelling to fashion fantastical alter-egos rooted in the contemporary, each embodying extreme traits that explore and celebrate unrestrained self-expression.

Na Chainkua has exhibited internationally in institutions across the United States, as well as in France, Germany, Italy, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Nigeria, in Ghana at the Nubuke Foundation and most recently in the Ghana Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale.

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Nubuke Foundation, Accra 2024