SelectedWorks

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TERESA
KUTALA
FIRMINO
(b. 1993, South Africa)
Teresa Kutala Firmino is a multimedia artist
based in Johannesburg working with paint,
photography, and performance. In her work, she
negotiates trauma, both personal and collective,
constructing scenes of past and present, which
are sometimes intertwined.
She received her MA in Fine Arts from the
University of the Witwatersrand, and is part of
the collective Kutala Chopeto, which started
as an investigation into the collective’s shared
history of the 32 Battalion, which settled
in Pomfret after the Border War. Firmino’s
exhibitions include solo shows at Everard Read,
London, and The Point of Order, Johannesburg.
Her work has also been exhibited at Goodman
Gallery, Cape Town; Nirox Sculpture Winter Fair,
Johannesburg; and Luanda Museum of Natural
History, Angola.