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<\/b><\/strong><\/h4>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_5w2x383  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p>by Nosipho Mantshongo<\/p>\n<p>My artistic practice foregrounds acts of transgression through the use of invocations of <i>umyalelo\/taelo<\/i> (prophecy) within the Zion Christian Church which is the largest African-initiated church. The church\u2019s headquarters are in Zion City Moria in the Limpopo Province.\u00a0 My artistic practice seeks to expand and interrogate further what the photographer Nonzuzo Gxekwa asserts: \u201cThere\u2019s an erasure that happened to black people\u2019s cultures and traditions, accounting for a history turned upside down by religion. When Christianity was introduced to us, it saw many of our ancestors joining the church, with most forced to turn their backs on their customs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0As a congregant in the ZCC church, it is of particular interest to me that the positioning and the agency of black women in the institution is never foregrounded nor spoken about. While uniforms serve as a form of identification in my artistic practice, they are used to signify power relations and speak back to an institution that erases women&#8217;s voices and labor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second <i>umyalelo\/taelo<\/i> narrates acts of transgression by foregrounding the recuperative use of sonic and speech acts that are prohibited in the public spheres. This is portrayed through the history of the brass band within independent churches such as the ZCC where women are not allowed to perform yet witness and linking it to community histories. The third <i>umyelelo\/taelo<\/i> foregrounds the everyday use of <i>Amazi\/Metsi<\/i> within the ZCC church. In my art, I explore the theo-economies of water as part of an everyday phenomenon. I explore how the value of water changes from simple water and classify it as holy water. Through photography and installation, water is used to portray ritual acts such as baptism and cleansing (<i>ukuhlambulula<\/i> ) during <i>umyalelo\/taelo.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As an artistic methodology <i>umyalelo\/taelo<\/i> in this juncture becomes an underlying currency of religion which I hope to be in conversation with other women artists who engage with the same tropes.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->\t        <\/div>\n\t    \t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-css_id=\"tb_u7yh106\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"themify_builder_row module_row tb_u7yh106 clearfix\">\n\t    \t    <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tf_box tf_w tf_rel\" >\n\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full first tb_3i9j106 tf_box\">\n\t    \t    \t        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t    <!-- module gallery -->\n<div  class=\"module gallery module-gallery 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The church\u2019s headquarters are in Zion City Moria in the Limpopo Province.\u00a0 My artistic practice seeks to expand and interrogate further what the photographer Nonzuzo [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2060","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/title_jnosipho.png\" title=\"title_jnosipho\" alt=\"title_jnosipho\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/title_jnosipho.png 524w, https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/title_jnosipho-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nosipho.jpg\" title=\"nosipho\" alt=\"nosipho\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nosipho.jpg 335w, https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nosipho-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/>\n<h4><strong><b>Amasione <\/b><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>by Nosipho Mantshongo<\/p> <p>My artistic practice foregrounds acts of transgression through the use of invocations of <i>umyalelo\/taelo<\/i> (prophecy) within the Zion Christian Church which is the largest African-initiated church. The church\u2019s headquarters are in Zion City Moria in the Limpopo Province.\u00a0 My artistic practice seeks to expand and interrogate further what the photographer Nonzuzo Gxekwa asserts: \u201cThere\u2019s an erasure that happened to black people\u2019s cultures and traditions, accounting for a history turned upside down by religion. When Christianity was introduced to us, it saw many of our ancestors joining the church, with most forced to turn their backs on their customs\u201d.<\/p> <p>\u00a0As a congregant in the ZCC church, it is of particular interest to me that the positioning and the agency of black women in the institution is never foregrounded nor spoken about. While uniforms serve as a form of identification in my artistic practice, they are used to signify power relations and speak back to an institution that erases women's voices and labor.\u00a0<\/p> <p>The second <i>umyalelo\/taelo<\/i> narrates acts of transgression by foregrounding the recuperative use of sonic and speech acts that are prohibited in the public spheres. This is portrayed through the history of the brass band within independent churches such as the ZCC where women are not allowed to perform yet witness and linking it to community histories. The third <i>umyelelo\/taelo<\/i> foregrounds the everyday use of <i>Amazi\/Metsi<\/i> within the ZCC church. In my art, I explore the theo-economies of water as part of an everyday phenomenon. I explore how the value of water changes from simple water and classify it as holy water. Through photography and installation, water is used to portray ritual acts such as baptism and cleansing (<i>ukuhlambulula<\/i> ) during <i>umyalelo\/taelo.\u00a0<\/i><\/p> <p>As an artistic methodology <i>umyalelo\/taelo<\/i> in this juncture becomes an underlying currency of religion which I hope to be in conversation with other women artists who engage with the same tropes.<\/p>\n[gallery ids=\"2204,2208,2209,2206,2205,2207,2211,2210,2212\"]\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/#art\"><strong>RETURN TO EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2060\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}