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Here, Matloga moves away from the cinematic, interconnected narratives that characterised his previous bodies of work. Instead, the artist’s new paintings are individual scenes that usher in a new chapter of formal experimentation. Matloga states:

There’s nothing that brings these paintings together aside from the fact that they’re all living. I started mixing my ink with glue and different types of colours – some of them have tints of purple and even blue. I have been using liquid charcoal for a long time but the reason behind mixing my ink was because I wanted a bit of pigment. I wanted to …