Viewing from 7th December 2021 to 12th February 2022
Tuesdays to Saturdays
10am to 4pm
The Wits Art Museum
corner Jorissen and Bertha Streets, Braamfontein
Covid protocols apply.
In memory of Noluthando Mcira Shortly before her passing earlier in 2021, Noluthando had written new lyrics for the song Nkosi Sikelela. In her words, this was to inspire “a new humanism for South Africa through love and imagination, a new prayer, [a] song of request must be sung.” We leave […]
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My work focuses on how my Christian and traditional beliefs coexist by feeding information into one another and creating newer forms of life and livability. I explore the transformation of my Christian beliefs due to the influence of my traditional beliefs. In addition, I focus on concepts such as; birthing, […]
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I dwell on the female, a neglected & victimized soul. As life presents its challenges & unfaithfulness to it, I find myself impulsively seeking its’ ideals on coping from psychological traumas & devastating occurrences that life & man have so viciously brought upon. As a result this neglected soul is […]
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The Torah (the Holy Book) contains 613 laws, of which only three pertain directly to women. Because the intended role for Jewish women as depicted in the Torah is that of a housewife and homemaker, these three laws can only be performed to their fullness when a Jewish woman is […]
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Nice to meet you. I’m Tumelo. I am currently a Fine Arts student at the Wits School of Art. I am a multidisciplinary artist that practices mostly photography, videography, sound and fashion, depending on where my artistic inspiration leads me. I am a minimalist at heart so my approach is […]
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My body of work this year is primarily concerned with the topic of queer medicalisation, and how the medical industrial complex causes harm to queer bodies, either directly or indirectly – as well as perpetuating and enabling societal perceptions of normative bodies through the power of the natural. I particularly […]
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Memory, (noun); the ability, power or process of recalling or repeating what has been learnt and experienced, especially through associative processes. Imagination (noun); the act or power of creating a mental image of something that is not visible to the senses or has never been fully seen in reality before. […]
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Tehillah Snyman is a Pretoria/Johannesburg based artist who works in the mediums of photography, video and painting. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Wits School of Art. The disciplines of feminist psychoanalysis, critical disability studies, queer theory and new materialist thought inform her practice. Recognizing […]
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This series of images attempts to illustrate the pandemic and the affect that it has had on the people of South Africa. exploring the difficulties, frustrations and limitations of having to learn to adapt to this new way of living. The work focuses on “the everyday mundane” of the student […]
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My artistic practice throughout this semester primarily stems from the concept of cultural appreciation. During the previous semester my work mostly revolved around questions pertaining the access of knowledge, fundamentally in a younger generation, regarding cultural practices, traditions and aesthetics , conveying questions along with drawing upon various concepts, views […]
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How do we render legible the interiority of the experience of pain?How do we make external what is internal?Is it true that pain is both absolutely unique and infinitely sharable? What are the ways in which trauma is able to imprint on us emotionally and manifest that imprint physically?Are my […]
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Telle mère, Telle fille I, Nous étions seese and Devenir are part of a digital album titled“Becoming”. Becoming is a collection of images and texts which are an engagement of oralmemories and an exploration of the inherited African wax cloths as an act of re-identifying,rearranging and restructuring of the self.The […]
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“In the dark of my subconscious, a pattern is forming. A deep wandering into the undiscovered passages of colour and chaos. A longing to situate some idea of normalcy? Or an attempt to reimagine what is normal? I suppose I won’t be getting much sleep tonight” Create in order to […]
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I have been considering the notion of passing time as it drips slowly through the clogged filter of thickened perception. The body itself exists as a tepid organism with a plethora of perception. The unceasing awareness of the processes underlying the skin are exhausting and endless. My work has been […]
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Who are we outside of what we think we know? Will we ever truly know the true essence of what we are? I consider myself a spiritual being of this earth, made up of water, air, fire, space, and earth brought onto the physical realm to fulfil a specific purpose. […]
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Polymeliana is a digital collage which forms part of a larger body of work entitled: meta·morphosis. In meta·morphosis, I explore the phenomenon of Blackfishing within cyberspaces as it relates to issues of identity, representation and race. I turn the concept of Blackfishing on its head as I explore themes of […]
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In the case of self-portraiture, cutting into myself may imply removing aspects of myself that I dislike. It could be ignoring or displacing what I don’t like about myself and focusing on what I do. This process of cutting into something as a permanent modification represents markers of beauty. I’m […]
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My love of sketching and painting outdoors was stimulated by Sophia Gray and Thomas Baines. I first encountered Sophia Gray’s Sketchbooks at the William Cullen Historic, I invested a lot of time looking at her watercolor and pencil studies, I was especially amazed at how she managed to divide her […]
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Searching For The MatriarchMetamorphosis My search for the matriarch took many different avenues. From a political space to an ancestral space, attempting to understand the depths of identity, masculinity and femininity and more so attempting to unravel, understand and explore my own identity as a coloured woman in South Africa. […]
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had to rethink a new direction in which my art took place. I had to tech myself other mediums in order to bring forth income during economic crisis. This is when I had weaved my way into the fashion, from the customization of shoes […]
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Migrant/Black Women/ SADC Region/ Documentation/ South Africa/ Ingress/ Informal Sector This body of work illustrates the experiences of undocumented migrant women living in South Africa. Women who have migrated from countries in the SADC region and are now living in Johannesburg. The aim of these photographs is to humanize the […]
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Mass migration, as consequential of globalization, has catapulted identities and their accompanying ideologies into oscillated fluidities. The identities generated via this re-routing phenomenon are described as hybrid or diasporic in essence. The term “cultural hybridity” was coined to signify the complexities associated with multiculturalism, capturing the perfectly imperfect notions which […]
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Late Spring, 9:25 am A man with a bruised and battered frame rolls into his driveway. The frame needs an update, they said it would. Sitting at his desk, he pushes the frame to keep up the creating. Forcing what ought not be forced. It’s spaghetti for supper again. The […]
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The Unnoticed. I am an artist that grew up in a small town called Lotus Garden I was never exposed to a lot of things in life rather than my surroundings. I grew up around women raised by a single mother. As a kid I grew up curious about why […]
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Telly Tubby ( 4 pieces ) These are watercolor images of teletubbies that have been transferred into lithography CMYK prints. The use of these images currently explores the creation of these self-invented; appropriated figures or characters used to intensify the theme and ideas of obscurity , the strange preposterous created […]
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My work explores personal narratives speaking directly from experience: existing vulnerably. The works I created after my mother’s passing explores my understanding of loss and mourning, through expressing the internalized processing and emotions vulnerably onto bodies of cloth. Seeing as though my underlying foundation to my compositional thinking takes the […]
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Memory and family archives are two primary themes my work explores and engages in conversations with. As a photographer, I use memory and family archives as focal points in understanding and contextualising my own identity. Yiayia’s House is a series of images shot in my grandmother’s home, speaking to and […]
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The Kente cloth which I am wearing belongs to my parents. This cloth has a deep historical association with wealth, high social status and cultural sophistication and was originally worn by Ghanaian kings. On one level my work seeks to pay homage to my cultural lineage and functions as an […]
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Everyone has bodies, right? How did religious fiction become reality? And reality, a religious fiction? Sex education is a history of imported categories, a history not mine, a history I don’t claim – but everyone has bodies, right? Sexed,sexy, sexualised, sexual bodies, right? Western perceptions of sex education continue to remain limiting and limited, […]
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Clinton Kuluse is currently in his 4th year of the BA Fine Arts degree at Wits University. Born and raised in Cape Town, Clinton’s photography serves as a documentation and observation in and of his community, recording everyday experiences and narratives and displaying through his imagery a vivid but transparent […]
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My artistic practice emerged from the necessity to process my life, and developed into both an approach and an intentional process of healing from pain that was under-diagnosed, unheard and difficult to verbalise. Taboos, medical, social and cultural stigma or biases contribute to the dismissal, ignorance, silencing or even misdiagnosis […]
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I am working with ideas of Black masculinity, the values I grew up with and how I perceive manhood within my own experience and scope of understanding. I seek to depict masculine behavior that is not often portrayed within black communities and my own cultural background and upbringing, dealing with […]
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Women need fair representation everywhere.It is not a matter of competition butof equality. Farooq Abdullah It is through this representation that my aim, within my artistic practice, is to bring the voices of those silenced or spoken over to the light. In 2021 my artwork became a continuation of the […]
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The continuous exchange of knowledge and resources allows concepts such as seed sovereignty, food sovereignty, indigenous knowledge systems, and eco-socialist alternatives to contribute to contemporary discourse. These nodes serve as important theoretical concepts that extends a praxis of collaborative engagement. Literature and writing as a mechanism for contemporary dissemination is […]
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Over the past 3 years, my artistic practice has been influenced by the need to reveal aspects of history that continue to have a profound impact on our contemporary culture today. My work mostly focuses on my personhood through navigating ideas of sexuality, gender and race. I am interested in […]
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Bongiwe Buthelezi, alternatively known as ‘b.theheartist’ (b. 2000), is visual artist currently residing in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work is structured around the recording and disseminating of personal/ public ‘herstories’ of Black women, and ways that these recollections of memory, play a role in the modern era – in addition […]
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Woven creams and yellows, decades of soap and softener.This body holds every rip, wrinkle, and stain. The intimacy of “invisible” chronic pain shows in this body of fabric. The bed is just a piece of furniture, but it is an intimate and private sanctuary for rest and healing, and it […]
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My artistic practice serves as an investigation and mapping of lineage, movement and ingrained narratives that exist within textiles. My practice is centred around the ideas of materiality both of which is investigated through its physical forms as well as through metaphorical conceptions. The headscarf or the ‘Hijab’ is the primary material component […]
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