Bruce Bowale has returned to the basics of his mix-media technique. At its core, his art is preoccupied with interrogating the culture of reading and the crises our African languages faces.
… Read More Intraparadox, An interview with Bruce Bowale
Bruce Bowale has returned to the basics of his artform. … Read More The next interception…Bruce Bowale
Philiswa Lila has stayed the course to weave some interesting forms hovering on the brink of abstraction. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Philiswa Lila
Philiswa Lila has stayed the course. I have recently started a conversation with her. In this upcoming episode she relates her academic training experience and the development of her concept. … Read More The next interception…Philiswa Lila
I want to cut this thing of tribalism in the arts. This is found in Afrikaner shows only, black shows only, still in 2021. In that sense you realise that you are stumbling across something that has been forged in steel, fire and blood for a long time. It is something that I always find interesting.
– Mxolisi Vusimuzi Beauchamp,
speaking in the context of Coffee + Medium Exhibition. 24 March 2021
… Read More Intraparadox-profundity, Beauchamp
This project exhibition, Coffee + Medium, first came to Beauchamp when he saw his friend and artist Asanda Kupa working with this non-traditional art medium. He was struck with an idea to extend the use of this medium as a challenge to other artists that he has kept contact with over the years.… Read More Intraparadox, interview with Mxolisi Vusimuzi Beauchamp,
In this edition of Intraparadox, I talk to Oratile Papi Konopi on Banele Khoza’s present solo exhibition, 27, on at BKhz Studio, Rosebank, Johannesburg. Our conversation establishes the young curator’s academic training before leafing through the layers that envelopes the latest project he was involved in at BKhz Studio. Soundtrack The sound-clip playing at the… Read More 27th BKhz and beyond
‘When one takes a look at all the South African cultures there’s a deep sense of ownership of colour, design and pattern. So I think being surrounded by all these various cultures and all these colours has subconsciously affected me.’
– Zanele Montle, 20.02.2021… Read More Intraparadox-profundity, Montle
In this upcoming feature, I talk with curator, Papi Oratile Konopi on the recent Banele Khoza Solo Exhibition at BKhz Studio. The exhibition can be described summarily as ‘a poetic snippet of Khoza’s life’. … Read More The next interception…Oratile Papi Konopi
I strongly desire to think beyond colonialism. I seek to continuously engage with what defines a ‘black identity’ or ‘blackness’.… Read More Intraparadox, A Correspondence with Zanele Montle
