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Lungiswa Gqunta

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Material
knotted fabric, and beer bottles
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This striking contemporary art installation features an array of suspended bottles in various shades of green and brown, creating a captivating visual spectacle. The composition is defined by the repetition of these bottle forms, which are strategically arranged to fill the space in a dynamic and visually engaging manner. The artist has employed a minimalist aesthetic, allowing the bottles themselves to take center stage and inviting the viewer to contemplate their symbolic significance. The work's title and the artist's intention likely reference themes of consumption, waste, or environmental consciousness, reflecting the contemporary concerns that often inspire this genre of conceptual art. ...

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Artist
Lungiswa Gqunta
B.1990, South African

Lungiswa Gqunta’s practice uncovers and interrogates forms of colonial violence often located in the interstices; subtle and hidden, or structural and systematic. Gqunta deals with a broad and complex range of issues that have plagued post-Apartheid South Africa, such as gender-based violence and substance abuse. In her sculptures and installations, the artist generally works with found materials such as broken empty beer bottles, razor wire, petrol, torn bedsheets, concrete and wooden bed frames; the scattered detritus of a Port Elizabeth township, materials loaded with violent connotations. Another arm of Gqunta’s practice involves building intergenerational connections with other black women, as well as discussing methods of collective healing and resistance, the points at which these processes meet, and whether one can be found within the other. ...

Lungiswa Gqunta: Artworks
56 Yokwe Street
Lungiswa Gqunta
56 Yokwe Street, 2016
150 x 100cm
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Lungiswa Gqunta
DIVIDER, 2016
210 x 700 x 340cm
Feet Under Fire (video still)
Lungiswa Gqunta
Feet Under Fire (video still), 2017
36.93cm
HATA!
Lungiswa Gqunta
HATA!, 2016
85 x 73 x 35cm
Horse Memorial I
Lawn I
Lungiswa Gqunta
Lawn I, 2017
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Untitled
Lungiswa Gqunta
Untitled, 2016
200 x 100cm
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