Bokamoso
A solo exhibition by King Debs
Multimedia artist King Debs focuses primarily on African identity, scriptoria, handstyles, and indigenous ideographics. Using various media from music and sound design to 3D/CGI film and video creation to bring his vision to life, King Debs has created a visual language to represent a futuristic version of South Africa. In the framework of this exhibition, South Africa is referred to as Azania, which is a protest name given by Steven Bantu Biko in his works around Black Consciousness during his fight for freedom and liberation.
I have created an alphabet, which is a proposed visual language/ script for the nation of Azania. It is meant to spark a sense of awareness of owning up to one's own identity, and also think about what it is to be an African in a contemporary context of the global village. My work also aims to rebuild a constructive dialogue around our identity as a nation, a nation that is conscious of our social-political climate and one that can engage in dialogues that can offer solutions on how we can heal from our traumatic past, and progress towards the future in a united front. - King Debs
