My Garden Flourishes With Flowers

The solo performance takes place in an imaginative world where a black queer body emulates an existing reality, a dream like state. Through communal and personal rituals, using their body as vessel for emerging narratives, Mzamo Nondlwana playfully attempts the deconstruction of linear concepts of time—merging past, present and future.

While the boundaries between personal memories and imagined realities blur, the audience is invited to witness this mystical journey of re-membering. At the same time the viewer is asked to confront their own perceptions of black bodies—challenging processes of othering, fetishisation and objectification.

My garden flourishes with flowers centers around embodied self-determined black subjectivity by focusing on elements of empowerment and self-expression, utopian notions and the power of imagination.

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