Phumulani Ntuli

"[1] Using an old-fashioned printing press, large mixed media collages were created in collaboration with Kim-Lee Loggenberg at the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, entitled Kunanela iphuzu emafini / Echoes of the Point Cloud.

[3] Based on mixed media and acrylic paint, the works interrogate the visual grammar of popular culture and contemporary digital AI creations, using collage as a means "to process information, through cutting, slicing, joining, displacing, and concealing.

[5] Told as counter-narrative,[6][7] the viewer is invited to imagine a new past, supported by the strategic subversion by "countering western landscape traditions by subverting the naturalism, pictorial unity and perspectival conventions canonical artworks rely on in various ways, and making use of indigenous visual grammars and vocabularies along with iconography that evokes pre-colonial relationships between people and the land.

Ntuli explains that the works presented in Venice "speak to the themes of the exhibition framed within the reflections and refraction of light experienced through a screen – this points to the contemporary representation of filters prevalent within social media and image-making technologies.

"[12] In the same year, and after a residency with Atelier Solar,[13] Ntuli opened his first solo exhibition in Spain, entitled Isidleke Sakhiwa Ngezinwele [A Nest is Built with Strands of Hair] at Galería Nueva in Madrid.