SIMNIKIWE BUHLUNGU: besides Puleng; dontsa-ring and roving preoccupations

199pp., colour illus., paperback, Chisenhale Gallery, Kunstinstituuut Melly & Mousse Publishing, London, Rotterdam & Milan, 2024

ISBN: 9788867496617

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, hygrosummons, Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Kunstinstituuut Melly, Rotterdam, 2024-2025.

Simnikiwe Buhlungu's mixed-media installation uses the water puddle as the basis for an exploration of microbiology through the disciplines of art, science, geography and history.

Texts by Alunamda Buhlungu, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, El Colegio Desextinction, Khwezi Gule, Taylor Le Melle, George Mahashe, Gabi Ngcobo, Saïd Rosales, Norbert C.A. de Ruijter, The Brother Moves On, Zoé Whitley and Riet Wijnen.

Simnikiwe Buhlungu was born in Johannesburg in 1995 and currently lives and works in Amsterdam.