Meet the Artists: Andile Dyalvane

Meet @andiledyalvane, one of the many contemporary artists whose work is featured in Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room.⁣
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Raised as a farmer and herder in the small village of Ngobozana in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, Dyalvane creates ceramic works that speak to his deep appreciation for the earth. ⁣
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Dyalvane's Umwonyo—which means “crevice” in the Xhosa language—evokes the mountainous landscapes that surround both Ngobozana and Cornwall, England, where Dyalvane made this pot during an artist’s residency.
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The vessel’s craggy dips and ridges were formed when his dancing in the studio caused it to collapse, a serendipitous moment that distilled both landscapes into a single artwork and created an energetic link between Dyalvane’s past and present.⁣

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