DRC/South Africa
Born in Democratic Republic of Congo (1999), Princia Matungulu is a Johannesburg-based artist who graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) degree. Being a Congolese born immigrant navigating the South African cultural landscape, she draws from her background and identity through shared processes and conversations with her mother.
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.
For Chicoanga
2023 African wax print, thread and glue 188 x 175 cm
“Uthende kulala paka hivi? Dju ya nini aulamuke? Dju ya nini auseme? Unaona, ni mama yako anakunyonyesha.” (Are you always going to sleep like this? Why don’t you wake up? Why don’t you talk? See, it is your mother that nurses you.)
2024 African wax print, polyester, thread and glue 184 x 92.5 cm
Mke mwenye wivu I (The Jealous wife I)
2024 African wax print, polyester, thread and glue 70.5 x 61 cm
Uko ndege, Imba mwimbo (You’re a bird, sing a song)
2022 African wax print fabric, thread and glue 136 x 190 x 24 cm
Mdomo wa manjano: Mpito III (Yellow Beak: transition II)
2023 African wax fabric, cotton thread and glue 66 x 41 cm
Kupita kwenye milima (Passage through the mountains)
2023 African wax print fabric, cotton thread and glue 155.5 x 77 cm
Ninachofanya, Ninachosema, Mimi ni nini (What I do, What I say, Who am I?)
2022 African wax print, thread and wood glue 145 x 252 x 8 cm
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