Tumelo Mtimkhulu
Tumelo Mtimkhulu is an artist from Johannesburg, South Africa, working between Johannesburg and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He employs visual and written text to grapple with questions of how to negotiate the personal and histories that one is heir to, primarily through a knowing of the body. Treating the often prescribed and singular idea of what history is as suspect. He conceives of these histories as ‘texts’ in themselves and the ‘human’ being as a site onto which these histories & experiences are written, effaced, rewritten and superimposed onto existing ‘texts’. All the while troubling ‘category’. These ‘texts’ are both specific to oneself and shared (albeit from different positions), such as the experience of upbringing, loss, love, language, socio-political happenings and geography.