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born 1993 South Africa

Asemahle Ntlonti (born 1993) is a contemporary South African artist living and working in Cape Town. She is best known for her political work that deals with her experience as a black female growing up in South Africa.

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The show lives in that in-between — the pain, the dislocation and the grey space of what hasn’t been fully told or remembered.

If you’re impatient or under pressure, frustration will get the better of you. You really have to allow the idea to take shape in its own time.

I use art as a way of knowing who I am and where I come from.

Colour is important in my work. I'm always investigating and curious about colour: rearranging, curating it in a way that will speak of a mood.

Somewhere, something in me is in pain. I just can’t pin this it to one thing. This is my way of finding healing.

I’m a story-teller and make work to tell stories – whether true or made-up. At the moment, I prefer lingering somewhere between the two.

The hardest part is always the conceptualisation. It’s a whole emotional cycle: searching for the idea (which can arrive in different ways), getting excited and thinking it’s brilliant, then hitting the phase of doubt and frustration and finally pushing through with grit.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Asemahle Ntlonti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.