The exhibition will comprise both sculptures and drawings made with cowhide and cow hair. Some of these will be abstract and ambiguous, unlike the distinctive figurative forms that the artist has previously made familiar to us. They could also be perceived as parts or fragments of bodies such as bums, elbows, bellybuttons or toes, or the ears, nose, mouth, anus and vagina through which we draw in and expel life forces.

Mntambo describes the impulse behind The Unspoken:

The work I am making gives form to the loud silences in our lives that seem to be hidden but are actually in plain sight, if we choose to see them – or the conversations that one only ever has with oneself, even though others are having similar conversations, also with themselves. In terms of forms, I think of folds, holes, bumps, crevices and spaces that are indeterminate in some respect. They engage our attention and draw us into a space, but an element always remains hidden from view, never fully revealing itself. In this way we are reminded of the sentences that are edited out of our exchanges even though others may well be aware of our unspoken thoughts and feelings.