Princia Matungulu
Princia
Matungulu was born in 1999 in Lubumbashi, DR Congo She lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa
Princia recently graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( degree Being a
Congolese born immigrant navigating through the South African landscape, she draws from her background and identity by
means of constant shared processes and conversations with her mother Princia practice is a combination of weaving,
sculpture and storytelling whereby the approach towards the materiality, the intricacy of the weaving process and the
resulting sculpture bears record of a personal, inferred or imagined history She employs weaving processes as a form of
silent protest a means of understanding Congolese traditions, norms and values of ‘ womanhood, which sometimes
overlap and intersect with those of women from the African diaspora thus exploring themes such as intimacy, sacredness,
dress and work in her artistic practice
Princia
participated and was a finalist for the Wits Young Artist Award 2021 exhibited at The Point of Order in a joint
exhibition in part fulfillment of her degree 2021 She has also exhibited work at the Holy Art Gallery in London, UK 2020
and her series of work Nouveaux Mémoire Vieux Pagne (New Memory Old Cloth) was part of Archive of Forgetfulness’
Group exhibition with the Goethe Institut South Africa 2020
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