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Naledi Khumalo

Durban, South Africa·Beadwork

Biography

Khumalo's beadwork reasserts isishunka as language — refusing the souvenir reading her medium has long endured abroad.

Cultural statement

"These beads are sentences. Read them as such."

Achievements

Portfolio

1 works

"Each panel encodes a Zulu love-letter, the historic isishunka beadwork system in which colour and pattern speak where words may not."

South Africa · Craftsmanship

Naledi Khumalo