Artist in Residence / Mbali Dhlamini
We welcome Mbali Dhlamini this November for a 3-week research residency that will build up on her research on indigo.
Mbali Dhlamini (b.1990, Masters in Fine Arts) is an interdisciplinary artist and visual researcher. She performs visual, tactile and discursive investigations into current indigenous cultural practices. With a view towards decolonized practices in contemporary culture, her work is in constant conversation with her past and present visual landscapes. Working to maintain a state of unlearning and relearning, her process recognises language as a medium of understanding and as a repository of knowledge.
Looking Into, digital photography series, 2017-2021
As part of her time here, Mbali will conduct field research on indigo dyeing in Kano and interrogate the relation between the environment, language and people.
I see you blue everywhere, hypothesis mapping mural, research wall. Indigo trees, preserved indigo balls , indigo seeds. Black Rock residency Senegal, 2021.
