Mongezi Ncombo Artist Statement

                                                                                                                  Shuttered Reality

Mongezi Ncombo`s work is an exploration of the intersecting movement by the people during migration in search of the pastures that are figuratively greener, leaving behind the pastures of the homelands that are literally greener and comforting.

His artworks are composed of the combination of the contour line and the gesture drawing technique, constructing the intersecting lines that symbolises the various roads utilized by the people during migration.

He then recomposes the abstract pattern to project the scenarios of the city dwellers on a daily basis. This theme has been intrigued by his life as a city dweller and how human kind has always been attached to the claims of the land they live in, which gave birth to the brutality of colonization, xenophobia, knowing very well that we once upon a time did not realise where we were, during our early stages of development and we are bound to lose everything we ever claimed or possessed through passing away, hence you notice an unstable atmosphere in his work.

 The instability that depicts the orbiting of the earth and it`s ever changing times. Contradicting the movement of the people in their environments but that still lives the ball on the court of an individual, when it comes down to seeing beyond the impact, utilizing the fragments from the shuttered reality  to create a mosaic or to remain with the shuttered reality as just another damage that life brings.