Simnikiwe Buhlungu

Simnikiwe Buhlungu (born 1995) is a South African fine artist. Quotes it's also important to challenge this concept of being a master of a singular field — you don't need to do tha I look for these opportunities, which are moments of critique, growth, and exchange with other artists Age and ageism within the arts tend to determine how people treat you, how people treat the work, and how we treat each other I'm speaking about apartheid all the time because you constantly have to explain the context of the country where you come from I think we should question immortality in art, the concept of artwork existing forever For a couple of years, my work has been concerned with how knowledges are [sic] produced, which feels almost too open-ended. That's actually kind of why I like it because I feel like there's a lifetime of questions to be asked and a lifetime of answers to be attempted to be answered South African Artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu on Creating the Sound of Dreams 5 October 2022 I’ve been trying to think about this thing…the future as a kind of general, open, and wide concept. And I’m looking at it—I mean, of course the most obvious answer is for me to say that time is not linear, it’s cyclical, which I think it is…cy-cli-cal, cyclical. But further than that, I think I’m more interested in understanding: whose future [are we] talking about? What We Put in the Skafthini (Mixtapenyana), 2021 I’m not a sound artist, I’m an artist who works with sound. I know for a lot of people, they don’t see the difference but there is one for me Sound can be a signal for the visual, but it also eschews very limiting and hegemonic understandings of what knowledge production can look like and exist as Simnikiwe Buhlungu 31 October 2024 Category:Artists from South Africa Category:Living people