Mntambo, Nandipha

Praça de Touros V

  • 2013
  • Archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper
  • 50 x 50 cm
This still from a performance by Mntambo presents the artist as a matador, carrying a red cloth and wearing a skirt of cowhide. The work merges male and female identities, while drawing on the symbolic role of cattle in lobola (a bride’s value) and broader African cultural practice.
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