“The dreamer stands on a hill overlooking a vast expanse of water. She sees long hair the colour of rope. Treasures emerging from sand. She sees maps of places that do not belong to the known world and people riding animals that left this planet long ago. In dreams, time collapses. Space destabilises. In dreams, the dreamer communes with fantasy, memory, ancestry, imagination.”

- Keely Shinners

While the conceptual threads of South African multi-disciplinary artist Simphiwe Buthelezi’s oeuvre begin in cultural dynamics and African spirituality, her practice is firmly grounded in a relentless exploration of materiality and form. The act of mending, reshaping, and nurturing Zulu intergenerational objects is not only a practical exploration but also a spiritual interrogation of material and form.