Inga Somdyala
1 – 28 February 2023
During his residency, Inga Somdyala created a series of iterative installations across the Centre’s Project Space and NIROX Residency Studio, making use of the Education Hub to write. As with his more recent residencies elsewhere, he collected soil from NIROX and the surrounding area, to be used in his work, and buried a canvas, thus making Gauteng the third province in which Somdyala has buried canvas since 2021.
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Inga Somdyala is a visual artist born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, living and working in Cape Town. He recently completed an MFA (2019) at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art. His work explores ‘personal aspects of the cultural, political and social negotiations of the post-apartheid generation.’ Based on lived-experience, Somdyala is ‘interested in how the personal actively interacts with the collective, and history with the present. With a focus on materiality, tableaux and installation, my work is an evocative and tactile exploration of the interplay between cultural, geopolitical and psychosocial identity making in South Africa. The primary use of soil and ochre in my practice has led me from geological to ontological questions.’
Group exhibitions include The Weight of a Stone (blank projects, 2022), Verse (Association for the Visual Arts Gallery, 2022), Matereality (Iziko South African National Gallery, 2020), the head the hand (blank projects, 2019) and AMAQABA Vol. 1 – a collaborative body of work with Xhanti Zwelendaba at Eclectica Contemporary (2018).
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