Vusumzi Nkomo (b. 1993) is a Cape Town-based artist, musician, writer, cultural theorist, and educator whose work is situated at the intersection of art and politics. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning installation, sculpture, video, drawing, performance, and sound—investigates how systems and structures persist long after they are declared obsolete.
Nkomo’s work probes and critiques hegemonic systems, interrogating themes of racial violence, knowledge production, language, power, history, and memory. Using a range of materials such as concrete, glass, shoe polish, salt, soil, and found objects, he stages speculative encounters that expose the operations of structural violence in the long history of South Africa’s colonialism and its afterlives. Drawing from conceptualist and minimalist strategies like seriality and repetition, his practice seeks to unveil and demystify the pervasiveness of anti-blackness as a structuring modality of Black life.
Nkomo has presented work in numerous significant group exhibitions, including SENSES (2024) at Michaelis Gallery and Occupation (2022) at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). He is also an active musician and sound artist, performing with his collective DEAD SYMBOLS and producing work with the sound collective Blackness and Dance. His sonic lecture, Sagrili and The Coming of Western Schools, was presented in dialogue with Grada Kilomba’s work at the Norval Foundation in 2022.
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Vusumzi Nkomo (b. 1993) is a Cape Town-based artist, musician, writer, cultural theorist, and educator whose work is situated at the intersection of art and politics. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning installation, sculpture, video, drawing, performance, and sound—investigates how systems and structures persist long after they are declared obsolete.
Nkomo’s work probes and critiques hegemonic systems, interrogating themes of racial violence, knowledge production, language, power, history, and memory. Using a range of materials such as concrete, glass, shoe polish, salt, soil, and found objects, he stages speculative encounters that expose the operations of structural violence in the long history of South Africa’s colonialism and its afterlives. Drawing from conceptualist and minimalist strategies like seriality and repetition, his practice seeks to unveil and demystify the pervasiveness of anti-blackness as a structuring modality of Black life.
Nkomo has presented work in numerous significant group exhibitions, including SENSES (2024) at Michaelis Gallery and Occupation (2022) at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). He is also an active musician and sound artist, performing with his collective DEAD SYMBOLS and producing work with the sound collective Blackness and Dance. His sonic lecture, Sagrili and The Coming of Western Schools, was presented in dialogue with Grada Kilomba’s work at the Norval Foundation in 2022.
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