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The isiZulu imperative ‘kala,’ translating to “weigh it” or “measure it”, invokes both the logic of calculation and its limits. Responding to a moment of profound global uncertainty, Buthelezi considers how we assign value and make meaning in a world increasingly shaped by systems of measurement, productivity and extraction.
Through a new body of labour-intensive sculptures and installations, Buthelezi explores the relationships between the individual and the collective, the earthly and the spiritual, inherited knowledge and imagined futures. Drawing on forms and materials that evoke landscapes, celestial bodies, and ancient systems of calculation, Kala approaches making as a means of orientation: a way of taking measure of the present while holding space for what might yet become possible.
Across the exhibition, spheres, topographies, concentric circles, and fragmented landscapes manifest as recurring forms. The works recall celestial maps, geological formations, and ancient tools of navigation, occupying a material and conceptual space between the terrestrial and the esoteric. These forms become tools with which Buthelezi attempts to locate the self within a world that feels increasingly unstable: to take measure of how far we have strayed, what has been lost, and what might still be recovered. Rather than describing the world, they propose another way of reading it, one where intuition and calculation, matter and memory, the mundane and the metaphysical coexist.