Siphumelele Gumede
Siphumelele Gumede is a fourth year BA Fine Art student at
the University of Pretoria, originally from Dundee, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Siphumelele primarily works in drawing, photography and text to create
personalised repositories of knowledge in the form of counter-archives.
The
purpose of this archival practice is to document the process of the formation
of identity using the medium of books. Language is foregrounded as a
constituent of identity. This body of work thus functions as a counter-archive;
a source of information that is accessible, not autonomous and not bound by the
walls of the gallery space. As a black feminist, Siphumelele uses the personal
as a political stance against the historical homogenisation and marginalisation
of the black female experience.
