Thuthukani Myeza - ‘Black By Demand’ 2023
Thuthukani Myeza - ‘By God and Melanin’ 2023
‘How to be black for beginners’
by Thuthukani Myeza
27.04.23 - 08.06.23
Thuthukani's work explores the “beauty and dread of being black and African”. It is heavily influenced by narratives from apartheid and segregation to colonial and precolonial Africa. He defines his part in this process as being a visual historian, reclaiming and distributing the legacies of his people.
Ever since he was a child, he has been fascinated by African culture. What started as a yearning to know soon became a journey down a rabbit hole where he discovered histories that were not taught in schools.
His work is a reshaping of the narratives hidden behind the paywalls of the privileged and the viewer is left holding a hymn to the richness of his culture and a chorus to how badly they were treated, in a world where the beauty of a continent is still held hostage in museums and galleries of the oppressor's descendants.
Thuthukani Myeza - ‘ibuya nini IAfrica v2’ 2023
Thuthukani Myeza - ‘Stone Cold Kaffir’ 2023