Biografia
I am a 2016 graduate from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. I graduated at the top of my class with an average of 95% and was the recipient of the annual Michaelis Prize for my final-year body of work.
Since discovering the medium in 2015, I have primarily been working in life-size figurative sculptural installations constructed out of recycled rubber (gathered from inner tyre tubing). I investigate the origins of civilization and society, as well as the ever-changing politics of national identity, collective memory and cultural belonging in the postcolonial world.
My work suggests that this shifting state of culture and a resulting sense of rootlessness is so much more apparent at the dawn of what Okwui Enwezor calls post-Westernism – a possibly threatening, unstable no man’s land that we find ourselves in today.
However, my characters are no longer individuals, but rather elements of an imagined realm beyond official history. They are the embodiment of a local cultural breakdown and a communal future where beliefs, assumptions and knowledge about place and culture can be de-constructed and re-negotiated.
