Uitstalling Villa
Lunga Ntila
Clarity in the Abyss
August 19th - November 20th, 2022
CLARITY IN THE ABYSS
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In the art series Clarity In The Abyss, the artworks take advantage of the blackness as being a site for magic and the call to be present. The figures are caught in a moment of transition, the motion that surrounds the gure turns them into a personification of a memory. The black becomes a space where you can’t tell worlds apart, it has become a place where you can birth new realities alongside revisiting the past ones.
Clarity in the Abyss - Uitstalling Art Gallery
Clarity in the Abyss - Uitstalling Art Gallery
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Clarity in the Abyss - Uitstalling Art Gallery
LUNGA NTILA
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Lunga Ntila is a an art photographer whose work is marked by storytelling, identity and deconstruction. As a conceptual photographer she makes use of a practice that brings together self-portraiture and collage making. She uses her practice as a way of understanding ideologies that govern the different facets that exist within us, and us around her. The foundation of Lunga’s practice is dissecting information and subjects to show the multiplicity that exists in each and one of them. She gives the viewer access to a world/self – reimagined. Lunga is known for creating works that are a melting pot of all the images, sounds and feelings that she has come across that she now uses as reference points in her work.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Through my art I look into themes such as identity and spirituality, these two help me understand the vastness of being. Collaging allows me to bend and form new worlds, I get to use the canvas to explore African spirituality and my interest in the unseen. My work has helped me create space for conversations about the transitional characteristics of identity and spirituality. As a result my work has become a host for our common grounds and has also brought out our dualities. People see themselves through my eyes, and they also see me in ways which I haven’t seen myself. The red is used as a bridge between humans and divinity, it removes the veil between these two worlds and acts as the first point of contact for the characters and the supernatural.
