Princia Matungulu

Matungulu’s practice is a combination of weaving, sculpture and storytelling. Her approach to the materiality, the intricacy of the weaving process and the resulting sculptures are a record of personal and imagined histories. She employs weaving processes as a means of understanding Congolese traditions, norms and values of ‘proper’ womanhood, which sometimes overlap and intersect with those of women from the African diaspora. Her work explores themes such as intimacy, sacredness, dress and labour.

Matungulu was awarded the Young Womxn Studio Bursary for 2021-2022 at the Bag factory Artists’ Studios, and held her joint exhibition with Kutlwano Monyai, Botsalano le Megopolo: Ennous entre nous, from August to September 2022. She participated and was a finalist in the Wits Young Artist Award (2021), and exhibited at The Point of Order in a joint exhibition in partial fulfilment of her degree (2021). She has also nexhibited work at the Holy Art Gallery in London, UK (2020), and her series of work Nouveaux Mémoire Vieux Pagne (New Memory Old Cloth) was part of the group exhibition Archive of Forgetfulness at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg (2020).

Explore Matungulu’s catalogue for the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024.