"Multilayered Memories" by Andrew Ntshabele Turbine Art Fair 2023: An exhibition capturing the style of Andrew Ntshabele that merges archival assemblages of collage and figurative painting

The creative process of Andrew Ntshabele centres on an active engagement with the archive. The archive is a contributor to public awareness.  The narration of history begins within and through the archive, hence the archive is an imperative site of remembrance. To be included in the community archive is to experience an embracing sense of representational belonging. Contrastingly, to be isolated from the archive is to encounter a profound form of violent historical erasure, which in essence is an existence of absence, left unrecognised and ungrieved.

 

The series of works that will be exhibited capture the distinct style of Andrew Ntshabele that merge archival assemblages of collage and figurative painting, to create moments of substance that are historical yet futuristic, for generations both young and old. Ntshabele’s works conjure receptive reflection; juxtaposing divisions of the past while advocating for unity in the present and the future.