In Inkukhu ibeke iqanda, Sopotela’s approach to the body is formal/structural and visceral; creating meaning and fleeting re-enactments through rituals realised through daily meditations. With these rituals, structures in the form of props and costumes became an installation into which viewers were invited, the body became a repository of memory represented.
About Chuma Sopotela
Chuma Sopotela is an award-winning actor/director, and the 2018 Standard Bank Young Artist for Performance Art. Her numerous credits include Inkuku Ibeke Iqanda, performed at the ICA Live Art Festival in 2014, Those Ghels (with Buhlebezwe Siwani) performed at the ICA Live Art Festival in 2017, Untitled performed at the Live Art Network Africa (LANA) Symposium in 2018, and Karoo Moose for which she received the 2007 Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Actress.
