(Enkandla by Jabulani
Cele)
Durban’s African Art Centre will be at this year’s Hilton
Arts Festival with an exhibition titled Soul
Luggage curated by Claudia Krumhoff, who describes the group exhibition
thus:
“Once
you pause, reflect and fill your nostrils with the crisp excitement of a new
scent - you instantly know that you have reached a destination, a place, a
sanctuary to be in for a while longer. Your new journey has begun!
In
curating this selection of new upcoming artist from our home region KwaZulu-Natal,
I have been exposed to this incredible tender moment. A whirlwind of
information and feelings that you take along, pack, carry and collect while you
are moving and traveling to a new place or destination this is called ‘soul
luggage’.
Each
of the carefully selected artists supported by the African Art Centre have been
there. Collecting memories, stories and emotions and preserving these in their
work. Soul luggage made visible- for some it’s the journey, leading the way,
for others it’s the destination, that motivates them to create their art.
Xolile
Mazibuko uses the medium of painting to convey and express her views on her
culture and how she experiences life as a young black woman from a traditional
Zulu background. She refers to herself as a ‘profoundly spiritual person’ and
attests to being deeply aggrieved for her community, for the disadvantaged and
often makes reference to the neglect of basic human rights. Her painting New South Africa catches this essence
perfectly.
Sibusiso
Duma is able to utilize the medium of fine art to express himself and represent
his surroundings. His subject matter includes serene landscapes sometimes
inhabited by individuals, and depicting his everyday life scenes. His paintings
are either executed in fine painterly marks or in a pointillism technique. The
viewer is always able to linger a bit longer in the moment that he had captured
to preserve.
Jabulani
Cele’s subjects are concerned with his surroundings, the township lifestyles
and the change in cultural habitat. His objects are moving, traveling and
almost always in motion. Creating a reflection of past, present and future.
Stenjwa
Luthuli’s linocut prints and WidusMtshali’s burnt wood sculptures are
complementing the traveling path of our exhibition- expressing their “soul
luggage’ and adding further entries into our travel journal.”
Soul Luggage is located in the Raymond
Slater Library, Centenary Hall, Grindrod Bank Theatre, at the Hilton Arts
Festival which runs this weekend from September 18 to 20.
For more
information on the African Art Centre contact Magdalene Reddy on 031 312 3805 or 078 500 4488
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