Profile
Specs is an artist based in South Africa. His practice engages with questions of history, memory, and the human condition in a post-apartheid context. Working across sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, and installation, his work examines how colonialism and its afterlives continue to shape contemporary identity and political life.
Central to his practice is an exploration of the porous boundaries between past, present, and future, often using personal narrative as a lens to reflect broader national concerns. His recent body of work, Where Are We Going?, interrogates South Africa's cultural health and fragile memory culture, positioning his practice as both introspective and socially engaged. He is also known as Richard Specs Ndimande.
