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Buhlungu explores socio-historical and everyday phenomena in search of their inexhaustible potential answers and, more innately, the nuances of language. For Buhlungu, the use of film, sound, text, installation, and print media, as non-linear forms, serves as alternative ways in which epistemological presences and everyday phenomena manifest and exist.
Her work seems to ask important and long-overdue questions about the nature of knowledge production and dissemination , as well as the contexts and circumstances that surround these epistemological phenomena. A way in which Buhlungu re-interprets the assimilation of knowledge is by exploring language and the relationships between messages – whether conveyed visually, linguistically, or sonically. She is more interested in posing questions than providing answers, which catalyses social discourse and participatory, co-curative knowledge-making.
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Biography
Simnikiwe Buhlungu (b. 1995) is an artist from Johannesburg, South Africa and currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Interested in knowledge production[s], how it is produced, by whom and how it is disseminated. Buhlungu locates socio-historical and everyday phenomena by navigating these questions and their inexhaustible potential answers via research-based methodologies. Through this, she maps points of cognisance which situate various layers of awareness as reverberated ecologies.
Exhibitions
The exhibition explores the concept of the permacrisis and how radical acceptance and rage may be interconnected.
Taking a cue from the medium, the exhibition teases out deeper questions of visual consumption and creation, not only of the images we ingest, but also the countless worlds and realities reinforced by film. Some might argue the line between public and private has entirely dissolved through micro-videos and a cadence of clickbait. Then, perhaps, our sense of crisis is magnified by a medium and culture of hyper-real image making.