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Atang Tshikare, Puruma,<\/em> 2025. Photo Robert Damisch. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Atang Tshikare<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Born 1980, based in Cape Town)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puruma,<\/em> 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed media<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Edvin Buregren, Utskottet, Malm\u00f6 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced with support from Pro Suecia Barbro Osher Foundation, Hjalmar Wicander Foundation, and Wan\u00e5s Konst Patrons Circle <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atang Tshikare\u2019s sculptures invite tactile curiosity by experimenting with and combining materials such as bronze, ceramics, glass, stone, clay, and wood in unexpected ways. His work is inspired by dreams, myths, rituals, flora and fauna as well as organic forms found in the surrounding landscapes. Puruma means \u201croar\u201d in Setswana, the mother tongue of the South African artist. Tshikare has created a hybrid fable, inspired by the King Protea, South Africa\u2019s national flower, and a lion. For\u202fTshikare, the lion symbolizes both strength and vulnerability while the opening flower signals the potential of tomorrow. Puruma reflects the artist\u2019s strong connection to his Setswana heritage, and especially the concept of \u201clife spirit,\u201d which exists in and connects all things\u2014from the smallest drop of water to stones, animals, and humans, and even planets and celestial bodies. Reflecting this unity of all things, the fable animal sits atop a nest of branches, its body mirrored in the water surface below, while the sky and sunlight in turn is reflected in an eye at the center of its crown head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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