Vusumzi Nkomo opens his new exhibition, Propositions for Dis-Order, at THK Gallery Cape Town, today, 12 October from 6 – 8PM. And you are invited!
Vusumzi Nkomo (b. 1993) is an artist, musician, writer, cultural theorist and educator living and working in Cape Town, South Africa.
His work, situated in the intersection between art and politics, investigates notions of invention and residue as means to make sense of how we are positioned as modern subjects. Nkomo asks how systems, structures and practices persist long after they have been pronounced ‘dead’. His practice spans across installation, sculpture, video, drawing, performance and sound. Nkomo’s work probes hegemonic semiotic systems while critiquing and interrogating racial violence, knowledge production, language, power, history and memory.
Working with a range of materials such as concrete, glass and mirrors, shoe and floor polish, sea salt, soil, ash, and various found objects, Nkomo stages speculative encounters between objects to expose the operations of structural violence and paradigmatic precarity in the longue durée of South Africa’s history of racial slavery, colonialism and their afterlives. Often drawing from conceptualist and minimalist strategies, Nkomo is interested in seriality, repetition, fragmentation, movement and multiplicity, as modes of unveiling and demystifying the pervasiveness and ubiquity of anti-blackness as structuring modality of Black life.
An exciting experience to engage with the work of Vusumzi Nkomo at THK Cape Town!
WHAT: Vusumzi Nkomo – Propositions for Dis-Order
WHERE: THK Cape Town, 52 Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening 12.Seot 18h00 – 20h00 | Gallery Hours Tues to Fri 10h00 – 18h00 Sat 10h00 – 14h00
INFO: T 021 470 0178 |Â E office@thkgallery.com | VISIT
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