In his masterfully carved and painted wooden reliefs and woodcut prints, Sthenjwa Luthuli (Born (1991) and based in Durban, South-Africa) celebrates his Zulu heritage and spiritual self while referencing the ongoing struggles that face racialized groups in post- apartheid South Africa. His compositions feature figures contorted against brightly hued, patterned backgrounds that seem to shift and shimmer. These headless, apparently floating characters appear either unwillingly adrift - the victims of subpar social infrastructures - or else ascending to something greater. Luthuli has said his figures occupy “unknown space” -  his term for an abstract territory between the spiritual and physical worlds that the artist accesses to connect with himself and his ancestors.