Glitching The Future
Conceptual Lead – Glitching the Future
ZAM Magazine x Bubblegumclub | Funded by Creative Industries NL | 2024–present
Currently leading a collaborative research project on decolonising tech narratives through African Futurism and African Feminism, working with Dr Kholeka Shange, Amogelang Maledu, Khanya Mashabela, and Aluta Null.
Umngqwambo
Umngqwambo satirically explores the remnants of pre-colonial initiation rituals through oil painting, installation, and video. The work reimagines these rites of passage—such as coming-of-age, marriage, and spiritual awakening—as sites of tension, transformation, and resistance within the context of colonial modernity’s erasure.
The grotesque exhibition centres on two large-scale oil paintings, The Dance of Death and Bahlekisa Ngami, which confront the ruptured temporality and corporeal struggles inherent in initiation. Amanzi Angcwele, an installation combining water and plastic, symbolises purification and regeneration, while the video Procession, comprised of footage taken during the artist's initiation period KwMachi, KwaZulu-Natal in 2019, found footage, and AI generated footage, inspired by the ancient Domba ritual, captures the ephemeral, spectral nature of the initiation experience.
Umngqwambo showed at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) from January 16 to February 27, 2025.