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Turiya Magadlela

2018

Turiya MAGADLELA

Born in 1978, Turiya Magadlela lives and works in Johannesburg.

Working with commonly found yet conceptually loaded fabrics 
(pantyhose, correctional service uniforms), she creates abstract compositions without painting, fixed on wooden frames. Her work revolves around the racial history of South Africa and her experience as a black woman; its broaches 
the questions of difference and women’s condition.
Magadlela has had seven solo exhibitions to date and has participated 
in numerous group exhibitions internationally, including Blue Black, 
curated by Glenn Ligon (Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2017), The Past is Present 
(Jack Shainman Gallery NY, 2017), Les jour qui viennent, curated by 
Marie-Ann Yemsi (Galerie des Galeries, Paris, 2017), Blackness in Abstraction (Pace Gallery NY, 2016). In 2015, she was awarded the prestigious FNB Art Prize.

. Blank projects (Le Cap)


My womb is at fault 7, 2015
Collants en nylon tendus sur toile / Nylon pantyhose on canvas
100 x 100 cm / 39,4 x 39,4 inches
Courtesy blank projects (Cape town)





I never made Swan Lake, 2015
Collants en nylon tendus sur toile / Nylon pantyhose thread and sealant on canvas
150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 inches
Courtesy blank projects (Cape town


Jesus walking I, 2017
Collants en nylon tendus sur toile / Nylon pantyhose thread and sealant on canvas
150 x 150 cm / 59,4 x 59,4 inches
Courtesy blank projects (Cape town)


Liberal, Wozo hala kwam, Ngihale kwarkho 2, 2017
Collants en nylon tendus sur toile / Nylon pantyhose thread and sealant on canvas
120 x 120 cm / 47,3 x 47,3 inches
Courtesy blank projects (Cape town)