chandra ngomane
Creative metal and jewellery desgn
Stellenbosch University
Graduates: 2022
Specialisms: Jewellery / Silversmithing
My location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
chandra ngomane
First Name: chandra
Last Name: ngomane
University / College: Stellenbosch University
Course / Program: Creative metal and jewellery desgn
Graduates: 2022
Specialisms: Jewellery / Silversmithing
My Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
About
Chandra Ngomane is a contemporary jewelry artist located in Cape Town who is interested in both the theory and practice of jewelry. She wants to look at how we may utilize jewelry to tell stories that are stored in the body. She accomplishes this by researching trauma, how it affects the body and mind, and how it is transmitted to others. Her research is an extension of her artistic practice. Both serve as a catalyst for the performative act of bearing witness to people groups' untold traumatic memories. Post-apartheid South Africans, in her instance.
An Empathic Representation Of Traumatic Memory And Transgenerational Trauma Through Contemporary Jewellery
My jewellery visualizes traumatic memory through transgenerational trauma transmission. I particularly look at jewellery as an intimate art form that acts as a vehicle that highlights the trauma that was experienced and is still present in post-apartheid South Africa. Through engaging with my jewellery, the performative act of witnessing takes place where the traumatic stories of apartheid are made tangible for the wearer. Trauma is an internal phenomenon that only individual experiencing it can "feel and touch", through jewellery I expand the feel and touch beyond the victims to the witness. Contemporary jewellery is a wearable art medium. Therefore, I see it as most suitable in creating a tangible and wearable object of witness through exploring jewellery's relationship with the body. Through my body of work, sensation and affect is the language that communicates the traumatic memories of the South Africans. By putting on the jewellery, one is metaphorically putting on their trauma, that lingers in not only the ones who experienced the traumatic event but in the generations that came after them.
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