“I can’t understand the words on those tracks, but I can feel them,” says the South Africa-born artist of the cultural influence of Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko
“I’ve been listening to Ballaké Sissoko for the past six years now. I can’t understand the words on those tracks, but I can feel them. When I paint, there’s this gap where the work goes beyond what I visualise, a balance of knowing and not knowing, creating a passage for me to grow. The first song on the album Sissoko & Sissoko, Sigi Gno Gonya, is like a spaceship moving you to these different places across Africa and beyond.
When he was a child, WonderBuhle Mbambo’s grandmother would point to the “lucky flowers” in the nearby fields of KwaNgcolosi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and encourage him to care for them as a vessel through which to communicate with ancestors and manifest fortune. Since his grandmother’s death, these flowers have been a guiding light – a North Star – illuminating the faces, bodies or clothes in many of his works.
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