Ndumo Ntuli is currently reading towards his Bachelor of Arts in fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Ndumo , otherwise known as Ndodana is a multimedia artist who specializes in photography, videography, performance and sculpture/crafts. His work is a narrative play of the above mentioned mediums i.e. Photography, videography, performance and sculpture/crafts which represents a sequence that grapples with his research interests in concepts such as ‘capture’, ‘process’, and ‘performance of the subject matter. In his artworks, Ndumo uses wire, primed canvas and recyclable materials such as plastic, newspaper and cans. Ndumo held a two part exhibition in 2021 titled ‘Walk and Drive’ consisting of performance and display of his hand made cars made with wire, acrylic paint, canvas, carton boxes and cool drink cans. In addition, displayed several images representing the process of his performance in the square city block of Braamfontein and Newtown, Johannesburg.
Ndodana’s work revolves from Africentric aesthetic conceptualisation on metaphors, materials and African storytelling. As an African Artist acknowledging in diaspora he strives to revive black consciousness in his artwork challenging the Eurocentric and Western ideology of how black people should represent themselves and culturally, speaking about how diaspora excludes their own people because of democracy and decoloniality. He draws contextual inspiration from tabita Rezaire, Mary Sibande, Penny Siopis, Mohau Modisakeng and Jo Ractliffe.
