Bahamba Ngomdla Ogqithisileyo, 2023
The work of Asanda Kupa is intended to bring awareness to the experiences of communities presenting themselves as crowds. Kupa’s scenes depict chaos and energy, representing the disorder of life for South Africa’s majority, particularly the Black population, who have had a life defined by struggle owed to an inability to access basic resources and information. Raw, incisive and urgent, Kupa’s work captures an important period of reconciliation in South Africa’s political history as he reflects on the breadth and depth of economies of hope and hopelessness, and prayer and popular protest.