Tamu Nkiwane

In this work I’m investigating the topography and history of London and South Africa. I do this by looking at the nuances involved in my own history. By looking at the personal and impersonal I wish to come to my own conclusions. I take a look at the framework which has affected the social condition amongst young people and rip it apart so as to better understand it! I talk to people, record conversations, assemble drawings and photo's and gather all my cultural in take from high and low culture. I take a long look at east London and gather material from the arches to form an interacting composition. I improvise musicially with others to form an unspoken language which transcends into a relationship based soley on intuition.

London, materials, South Africa, British colonialism, right stance political parties and immigration merge into the consumerist art piece which is the shop window display. The installation of the everyday which prompts and sways aesthetic opinion and helps push forward new ideas and trends, it is a device of pure persuasion and appropriator of cultures and histories. I wish to play with this device so as to talk about things very close to me and use it as a platform to share and communicate.