Turiya Magadlela

Turiya Magadlela (born 1978 in Johannesburg, South Africa), daughter of Fikile Magadlela, is a South African artist. She is known for using common cloths, from pantyhose to sheeting and correctional service uniforms, in her works. Quotes I exhibit more overseas than I do here at home – it’s crazy. This is part of the reason why I am looking forward to this one. "Looking Back… Moving Forward: An exhibition of struggle art repatriated by the Ifa Lethu Foundation", The Citizen, (November 24 2017). I draw to matters that concern me, such as the way women are treated in my country of Africa, with the violent cutting of female circumcision in newborn babies and young girls. I speak to the misfortunes of inequalities in female-based industries as well as matters such as ageism, racialism, and how capitalism without concern for moral values has left many women and children in hell holes all around the world. We have rich European and American individuals who use our land for leisure without consideration of local needs and local struggles and governments who allow this to happen because they lack resources -, for example, we do not manufacture our own clothes and our own food. Meanwhile, China’s produces items in excess that are rejected in the first world and get dumped on our shores. I believe art has the power to make us question and thus make us change our reality/world. I also believe it has the power to heal, to suggest new realities, to show us a way towards that better place that lives inside of all of us. External links Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from South Africa