IVUKUVUKU

Ivukuvuku, born Chumani Bavulele Mantanga, is from eMgwenyane village at Tsomo in the Eastern Cape. She is a multi-dimensional artist who works across disciplines of painting, glass, ceramics, writing photography and performance. In her work, she explores themes of memory, healing, history and ancestry. Ivukuvuku completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine and Applied Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology (date), majoring in glass and painting.

“Self-representation expands to the universe from which it seeks to discover the memories that reinvests themselves through unlimited forms, channels, methods and agencies. The dynamics in the process of my creation are communicated through introspective narratives. I explore the characterisations of the agencies memory creates, and the nature of spirits can be used to predict the structure of evolution.”