The Cape Town artist continues to push his wish for a borderless utopia with his latest visuals. The video opens with an aerial shot of an onshore breeze. Abospitter’s solitary frame ambles as he starts raping, decked in all black. Nquml’umqala is an emotional video that tugs at your heartstrings and ultimately asks: who are you and do you know where you come from?
The visual component of Nquml’umqala resists the impulse to frame Abospitter’s experiences as exclusively traumatic. Instead, what gives the video its emotional currency is its restraint. Its message is always implicit. The characters navigate Cape Town in its beauty and its ugliness. They sing, dance, breathe and exist without being cast as receptacles for violence and systematic oppression. From the first to the last frame, the video subverts what it means to be black and Xhosa. In Abospitter’s universe, it means colourful, life-affirming, and without fear of man or the elements.
Watch the visuals below and tell us what you think:
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