PRESS RELEASE
VUSUMZI NKOMO: Discordant Infrastructure and other minor gestures
Apr 2 – Apr 26, 2025
Discordant Infrastructure and other minor gestures, a solo exhibition by Vusumzi Nkomo.
Exhibition opening: 6pm Wednesday 2 April 2025
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Vusumzi Nkomo (b. 1993, South Africa) is an artist, writer and educator living and working in Cape Town, South Africa.
Nkomo’s practice explores the systems and structures that produce modern subjects. Through a practice that spans across sculpture, installation, video, drawing, performance and sound, Nkomo interrogates the continuities between the economy and racial violence, games, knowledge production and memory.
Working with a range of materials such as concrete, glass, mirrors, shoe polish, sea salt, soil, Nkomo stages speculative encounters between objects to expose the operations of structural violence and paradigmatic precarity in the longue dure?e of South Africa’s history of racial slavery, colonialism and their ‘afterlives’. Often drawing from conceptualist and minimalist strategies, Nkomo is interested in systems aesthetics, seriality, repetition, fragmentation and movement, as modes of unveiling and demystifying the pervasiveness and ubiquity of anti-Blackness.
