Nicholas Hlobo (South African, born 1975) Inkosana
Provenienza : Provenance Stevenson, Cape Town; Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012. Stitched together, yet also in a state of unravel, Inkosana displays a concept central to the core of Nicholas Hlobo's work, the delicacy of wounds and how they can be bound and healed as easily as they can be undone or broken. Through this threading technique Hlobo explores the complexities of identity, utilising various materials that have embedded meaning. These tropes attuned to the materials could be gendered, cultural, ethical, or sexual tropes of the artists own identity. 'When I was an art student I saw there was a huge pool of materials you could use to convey meaning...I like using metaphors and having the materials say something. My process is one of unravelling a tapestry, mending it, cutting it up, weaving or knitting together.'(N. Hlobo in Stevenson, p. 27) Bibliography 'Nicholas Hlobo interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist', Africa and abstraction: Johannesburg; Blom, Hlobo, Nitegeka, Rhode, (Stevenson, 2012)
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