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boneless sculptures – and thus oscillating between evoking the garments that can be shod at will and the bodies that once contained living, breathing, masticating beings with four stomachs. The idea to work with cowhide first came to her in a dream, and her interest later blossomed as she wanted to study the hide to learn more about its chemical processes. Because of that, she worked with a taxidermist to better understand how to tan hides. Mntambo embraces this ambiguity and likes to play with the tension between the sightly and the unsightly by manipulating how her viewers negotiate the two aspects of the hide.
43:, Southern Africa, in 1982. Growing up, her father was a Methodist pastor and later became a bishop. His occupation allowed her family to live in white neighbourhoods during apartheid, an aspect of her life that serves as an influence for her art and identity as an artist. Prior to her career in art, her first choice was to study medicine.< Mntambo was originally inspired to pursue a career in forensic pathology after coming home to her family dogs being killed by a stalker, but the sight of "dead bodies" proved to be overwhelming. She graduated with a master's degree in Fine Art (with distinction) from the
77:"My intention is to explore the physical and tactile properties of hide and aspects of control that allow or prevent me from manipulating this material in the context of the female body and contemporary art. I have used cowhide as a means to subvert expected associations with corporeal presence, femininity, sexuality and vulnerability. The work I create seeks to challenge and subvert preconceptions regarding representation of the female body." "Themes of confrontation, protection and refuge play out particularly in relation to inner conflicts and to notions of self-love/hatred. The bronze,
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2010 | Hautnah: Hair in art and culture, Kunstverein
Leonberg, Germany Toros! Works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France She Devil, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome,
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2016 | Dak’Art, 12th Dakar
Biennale, Senegal - Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Fowler Museum, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
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2012 | Faena, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Standard Bank
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Identities in the Global South, Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, South Africa. Matereality, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
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