Pitika Ntuli, a sculptor, poet, writer and academic who lived in exile in Swaziland and the United Kingdom, is staging a retrospective of his work, which spans several decades.
The works, in stone, metal, bone and bronze, include found objects. ‘I exhibited my artworks throughout the world, but not in my native land and yet all my work owes its being to the soil that nourished me. The faces of my people, the voices, the movements, the cries and their laughter, their struggles and triumphs are the words, the images I use to enter into conversations with the rest of the world. They are my weapons in the fight against the obliteration of our knowledge systems,” Ntuli says.
Unisa Art Gallery, Kgorong Building, Preller Road, Pretoria, until June 17. Tel: 012 441 5683.