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There is nothing like returning to a place that re

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela

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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's cha

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela

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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. - Nelson Mandela
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Pt :3 Some friends have decided it is too much for

Pt :3 Some friends have decided it is too much for them to deal with, which I understand. Some thought I was faking it. I am sad, obviously. But each to their own. I understand, and I forgive you. You decided your own amount of noise, and I get to decide mine.

I have am lucky to have an amazing support system in my life - the friends that stick - and my very patient partner. This is what matters most, this is priceless. For those of you, you know who you are - and I love you.

I am a bit uncertain as to how to proceed with what I share. If you read this, please head to my story and participate in the poll? This will help me make up my mind.

*I am keeping the phoenix highlights up for now. I dont have to look at it everyday, and I have not decided what to so with it yet.

Forewarned is forearmed.

With love,
W🤍

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Pt 2 : 2 days after this photo was taken to promot

Pt 2 : 2 days after this photo was taken to promote my, now postponed solo exhibition - my world was turned upside down. When I removed my makeup, the symptoms that have plagued me for almost 2 months came to a quick and sudden head. By the next morning I could not move my face, and I was paralysed on my left side. I hid in my bedroom - too scared to say anything, until I could not hide from the reality anymore

After a rushed and painful - emotional and physical - visit to the neurologist, I was hospitalised almost immediately. They did tests of all sorts, CT scans, MRI scans, lumber-puncture, X-rays and the rest I cant even remember. And then they started the IV's rushing everything but the kitchen sink into my blood

I was diagnosed with the rare neurological disorder, Transverse Myelitis. The rug was pulled from under my feet. The combination of varicella zoster virus (inverted shingles) and my existing immune disorder was the perfect storm.

In 9 weeks, my life has changed completely. I have started reassembling my studio to fit my new situation. I am walking with a cane - not too far, otherwise I deplete the small amount of energy that I have for the day. I have brain fog. I do not know which version of me will wake up
each morning. I am not saying this as a way to look for sympathy. I say it as it is my reality.
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Pt 1 : I have deleted my previous posts of my jour

Pt 1 : I have deleted my previous posts of my journal*. Instagram is my happy place.

I kept the journal - and I intend to create a self portrait out of it - but I can't bear to see it anymore. It is representational of me descending into a very weird space - until my life got turned entirely upside down.

I have been musing about making this public knowledge - and obviously I have made up my mind. I would not be true to my self if I don't raise awareness.

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UN//TITLED There are only 26 copies of UN//TITLED

UN//TITLED

There are only 26 copies of UN//TITLED left to purchase. All funds raised from the sale of this book will go towards Balaclava.Q Projects. To purchase your copy, while stocks last, look for the link in @balaclava.q's bio.

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In 2016 I came across an interesting collective, b

After waiting months for our country's postal serv

After waiting months for our country's postal service to receive my copy of @balaclava.q 's "UN//TITLED - An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art" it finally arrived!

Check my next post for more about journey with @balaclava.q leading up to the publication of UN//TITLED.

To find out more about
'UN//TITLED...' or to purchase a copy please click the link in @ba bio.

Remember that all funds raised from the sale of this book go towards our next curatorial project.

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I am doing a study in self discipline, looking inw

I am doing a study in self discipline, looking inwards. While I am disconnecting from the world. A weird contradiction, but it is a necessary discipline for me.

Divine timing has shown me that my performance, Emerge, was necessary to create, but premature to be shown. I thought I was done, clearly not. I was saddened, but physically I am incapable of putting it out there.

During the next five weeks I am going to go through emotional, physical and emotional tests. I might go mad, I might cry, I might laugh hysterically. I might look at myself and not recognise the old me anymore. Bottom line, this process is inevitable.

I will post each day on my stories, so that I have a documentation of my experience to look back on, you are welcome to look too. I have no shame. I am going to burst into flames, and come back reborn, a Phoenix. Buckle up.

To quote a wise man : "Everything I do is Art"

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A ritualistic performance art piece by Wilhelm Vin

A ritualistic performance art piece by Wilhelm Vincent. The final reveal.

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The release of: "EMERGE" - a collection of works t

The release of: "EMERGE" - a collection of works that symbolises creation through destruction. Sign up to my newsletter to receive updates on when this performance will be available.

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Preparing for my performance. My latest collecti

Preparing for my performance.

My latest collection: "EMERGE" - an assemblage of works that symbolises creation through destruction. Sign up now to receive an invite to the exclusive online launch.

A live performance act by Wilhelm Vincent. The final reveal.

Link in Bio.

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EMERGE - by Wilhelm Vincent **** #wilhelmvincent

EMERGE - by Wilhelm Vincent

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EMERGE - by Wilhelm Vincent **** #wilhelmvincent

EMERGE - by Wilhelm Vincent

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Part 3/3: I will be sharing fragments of this coll

Part 3/3: I will be sharing fragments of this collection weekly. For inquiries or exclusive previews, please send me a DM.

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Part 1/3: Piece of a piece. Together. A more exten

Part 1/3: Piece of a piece. Together. A more extensive compilation of all that surfaced. On my way to the release and launch of my latest collection, "EMERGE."

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The time is here to finally let go of this collect

The time is here to finally let go of this collection. And I am Dood, Gelukkig.

It was a distracting, healing and enlightening process.
You can go and have a look for yourself to see the inspiration behind each piece. Maybe even understand it?

Thank you for your patience.

Link in Bio.

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In 2016 I came across an interesting collective, b

In 2016 I came across an interesting collective, being in rural South Africa I did not know then what doors it would open for me.

My work was been chosen to feature Balaclava.Q newest project : UN//TITLED an Anthology that acts as both a portfolio and advocacy document for Queer Art. For a long time I have created Queer-centric art, and this honour comes as an accolade to that stage of my work. My work is still Queer, but the messages are inveterate and more entrenched. Thank you @balaclava.q and congratulations to those that will feature in the book as well. I am not great on social media, but I'll tag you eventually.

The work i am posting here, Unveilable, was part of @inspirationalartmagazine 14th issue on Personal Identities (and in good company!). While I am on here, I would like to thank the magazine’s editor for their persistence and unrelenting promotion of diverse art. This work is also held in a private collection in the USA.

I also praise @danielquasar for our flag of inclusivity and progression. We embrace your flag. Please remember this “Gilbert Baker was an incredibly generous person in general, and as an artist he deliberately did not trademark the Rainbow Flag…I think he definitely left the door open for reinterpretation,” @michellemillarfisher explains. “If new design provocations like this flag can help important conversations happen, then it is a demonstration of the continuing power of the discipline of design to effect change. More power to that!” Finally

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Robert Mapplethorpe's work forced me to face the d

Robert Mapplethorpe's work forced me to face the deepest, darkest parts of my soul. He made me realise I could be an artist, no matter what. An unrelenting force in my growth - as an artist and soul - knowing that I will not stare quietly into death’s eyes.

Robert lived fully, until he died of AIDS in 1989.

This my homage to him, my hero and sometimes my demon. My work is composed of ideologies and imagery ; from when he started until he died… alone of a virus, known to most, feared by all. He was unrelenting in his fervour.

Robert gave me my voice, and this tribute is to all the voiceless before and after me - and on this World Aids Day may you find yours.

“I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before”. – Robert Mapplethorpe

09/03/1989 (homeage to Robert)
Mixed Media on Canvas
46x61cm
$1200

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During the hype of the pandemic and the hard South

During the hype of the pandemic and the hard South African lockdown, this piece was born. I bought the newspaper every day, and without reading it, I put it into my blender and created a maché. It was a healing process for me, through all this noise. And then I added gold leaf, as one does.

I am an obsessive newsreader. It is not the healthiest of obsessions, I know. However, what I do read - frightens me. Generations before me probably felt the same, and the next generations (if there are any) will too.

Die dag toe koerante sterf.

Wilhelm Vincent
Mixed Media on Canvas
41 x 31 cm

$800

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“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if on

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” - Nietzsche

A piece created when my heart was in a raw space. Letting go that no longer serves me. Viscerally aching and reacting to what was playing out on the world’s stage, I channeled the noise from outside into something tangible.

Meditating on death led me to fascinating facts about the burial of the heart. In medieval Europe heart-burial was common among the higher echelons of society. Following Chopin’s dying wish, his heart was removed and preserved in brandy, to be returned to his homeland.

Corazón

Wilhelm Vincent
Mixed Media on Canvas
40,5 x 30,5 cm
$800

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Dood, Gelukkig : A danse macabre “A body of wor

Dood, Gelukkig : A danse macabre

“A body of work that examines death in a more transcendental light. Death and expiration in order for growth to occur, like snakes shedding. A collection influenced by ancient cultures and a heightened sense of mortality in these times of introspection and contemplation. ”

This new collection consists of eight pieces that formed part of a crucial virtual exhibition in South Africa at @artkaroo during our national lockdown. The time has come to share them and for this chapter of my life and work to be completed, to focus all my energy on the future projects.

Leading up to the complete collection being shared online, over the next few weeks I will be introducing you to them. Starting with this video today.

Complete collection online soon at my website (link in bio)

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I am not posting this for crowd satisfaction. A s

I am not posting this for crowd satisfaction.

A series of unfortunate events struck my household, and immediate family. I will not elaborate more - but as the pictures can reveal intimately, apart from the occurrence’s psychological toll, it also took it’s physical worth.

I am unable to show you my series, “Dood, Gelukkig”. in the timeframe that I deem proper. I trust you will excuse me and let me recuperate.

all my love,

w🖤

I have always been fascinated with the celebration

I have always been fascinated with the celebration of death throughout ancient cultures. Driving the fear away from it, and seeing it as a transition of beauty and festivity. This fascination has become more relevant in my works, and more pronounced with the world in this confusing state.

I recently did a body of work, circling around the subject of death as a celebration : "Dood, Gelukkig" , that participated in ArtKaroo's exhibition, Particular. You can view the entire exhibtion by visiting www.artkaroo.co.za, under Particular.

The first piece is borrowed and inspired by ancient Egyptian culture - as I have always admired their elaborate funerary rites. I started it in 2016, after losing a dear friend. So here, vulnerably, I am sharing it with you.

"Egyptian burial is the common term for the ancient Egyptian funerary rituals concerning death and the soul’s journey to the afterlife. Eternity, according to scholar Margaret Bunson, “was the common destination of each man, woman and child in Egypt” (87) but not 'eternity' as in an afterlife above the clouds but, rather, an eternal Egypt which mirrored one’s life on earth.

Everything one thought had been lost at death was waiting in an idealized form in the afterlife and one's earthly goods, interred with one's corpse, followed suit and were there at hand. The Egyptian concept of the soul – which may have developed quite early – dictated that there needed to be a preserved body on the earth in order for the soul to have hope of eternal life.

In death, it was thought, people would still have to perform this same sort of service (as the afterlife was simply a continuation of the earthly one) and so shabti dolls were placed in the tomb to serve as one’s replacement worker when called upon by the god Osiris for service.- https://www.ancient.eu/Egyptian_Burial

Artwork :
Soul's Journey
Wilhelm Vincent
1x1m
Mixed Media on Canvas
R35 000

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🖕🏻 “The only way to deal with an unfree wo

🖕🏻 “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
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