Discontinued Healing

Provenance

Everard Read, Cape Town, January 2020.

The Georgina Jaffee Hair Matters Collection.

Exhibited

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, Everard Read Booth, 14 to 16 February 2020.

Notes

“The female figures pictured in the artwork reference the Mbalantu tribe who reside near the Angolan and Nambian border. Many of their traditions revolve around or are given expression through different hair styles. The girls and women of the Mbalantu prepare their hair in different styles to reflect the different stages of their lives and the status this brings. Firmino is preoccupied with revisiting historical narratives. 'History is often biased and one-sided, so to get a better understanding I reimagine my past in this so-called truth,' says the artist. Personal memories and historical events and imagery are combined and presented in interior scenes that function as possibilities and invitations to reimagine the past."

Unknown author (no date) Everard Read, Teresa Kutala Firmino - Discontinued Healing, text courtesy of Everard Read and Corrigall & Co, published in Hair Matters, online, accessed 21 November 2025.