Wethu Mbusi

[IN](E)TERNAL. , 2025, Installation views

[IN](E)TERNAL.

by Wethu Mbusi

2 September

This exhibition is the result of an ongoing conversation with my spiritual world, an exchange that resists final answers and instead thrives in repetition, gesture and labour. My practice engages patterns, figure studies and processes of making that demand time and endurance. Each mark and dug out residue become a meditation and a question. A way of imposing unseen presences into material form.

Patterns function as carriers of memory, rhythm and structures that exist beyond the surface into something larger than myself. The figures are embodiments of energies that are present throughout the process of thinking and making.

This is not a fixed story but a living dialogue. The works ask: “Kuthetha ukuthini xha singasebenzisana nemimoya”, and how might the intensity of labour in itself become a language of reverence and return.

Photography by Siyanda Marrengane