Ayanda Mabulu at Commune.1

Commune.1 currently hosts a living, open studio of poet and artist Ayanda Mabulu. Following a two month in-gallery residency at Commune.1. According to the artist, working in this way in the gallery space is like a mirror of the unfinished business of racial redress and thus assumes a performative function.
In this new body of work the artist’s message is highly politicized. Mabulu uses visual placeholders for systems of repression alongside both recognizable and anonymous politicians and colonial figures.