© Thys Dullart Phumulani Ntuli, born in 1986, obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2012 from the University of Johannesburg, where he majored in sculpture. He holds a Master of Fine Arts - Arts in Public Sphere from Ecole Cantonale D’Art du Valais (ECAV) in Sierre-Switzerland and was awarded the Prix-excellence for his research project Permutations of an event (2017) centred on notions of archives and surveillance. His work merges artistic research, sculpture, video installations and performative practices. He consistently engages diverse audiences and attempts to make visible history’s gaps/breaks/silences/pauses and its remnants. In 2022 Ntuli represented South Africa at the 59th Venice Biennale. In the same year his work was shown at the ICA Live Art Festival. Furthermore, Ntuli has presented his work at the Spier Light Art Festival in 2021, Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival 2020, Young Congo Biennale 2019, Live Works Vol. 6 in 2018 curated by Simone Frangi and Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Kampala Biennale 2016 curated by Elise Atangana, the Bone Performance Festival 2016 in Bern curated by Valerian Maly and the Act Festival 2016 in Geneva, Basel, Sierre and Zurich. During the aforementioned year, Ntuli participated in residencies and workshops at the Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy and at the Alps Art Academy in Chur, Switzerland, where he developed two solo performance projects throughout 2016 and 2017. Between 2012 and 2014 he presented Umjondolo at the Thupelo Workshop and the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg as well as at the Infecting the City Festival in Cape Town.