Sthenjwa Luthuli 1991

Vit à Durban, South Africa. Travaille dans Durban South Africa.

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Uitstalling Art Gallery

In his masterfully carved and painted wooden reliefs and woodcut prints, Sthenjwa Luthuli celebrates his Zulu heritage and spiritual self while referencing the ongoing struggles that face racialized groups in post-apartheid South Africa. His compositions feature figures contorted against brightly hued, patterned backgrounds that seem to shift and shimmer. These headless, apparently floating characters appear either unwillingly adrift—the victims of subpar social infrastructures—or else ascending to something greater. Luthuli has said his figures occupy “unknown space”—his term for an abstract territory between the spiritual and physical worlds that the artist accesses to connect with himself and his ancestors. Luthuli has exhibited in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, Lagos, and beyond. Collectors of his work include musicians Alicia Keys and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. He has cited fellow countrymen Ephraim Ngatane and Gerard Sekoto as influences, as well as Wangechi Mutu, Yinka Shonibare CBE, and Edward Hopper.

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