Malebona Maphutse and Simnikiwe Buhlungu

Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa

Artist statement

Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Malebona Maphutse started working together as part of the collective Title in Transgression. Title in Transgression was a group of artists working collectively, as well as collaboratively. Formed in a time of frustration with disillusionment of social and cultural instabilities both in the art world[s] as well as how each artist navigates and locates their narrative within a larger societal framework, Title in Transgression sought to creatively address these slippages and frustrations through numerous artistic platforms and engagements. Conversations concerning narratives, historical points of reference, cultural production and their respective lived experience informed both their collective as well as their individual practices. Malebona Maphutse is a Johannesburg based artist who works in and outside of the academic institution. Her work has existed in/at a number of exhibitions, spaces and happenings. She is currently interested in a number of forms of making which include printmaking and video art. She also enjoys drawing as an extension of her practice. She is currently involved with two projects with Offset Culture (Tijuana 2018) as part of a poster series called Pictorial Nerve and video screening called Lost Lover in Brazil this September 2018. Through print, video, sculpture and installation, her interests have manifested into a complex matrix involving the existence of bodies in and around her including her own and their historical,...

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