Art as a living archive of memory.identity, healing, and becoming. House4love transforms personal and collective memory into spaces for dialogue, restoration and belonging.
Born in South Africa, Neville Keith Matroos is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves between personal memory, collective history and cultural restoration. His work is rooted in Ubuntu—I am because we are - and explores identity, belonging, forced removals, intergenerational memory and healing through art.
House4Love serves as a platform for expositions, collaborations, and community projects connecting South Africa, Africa, and Europe. By utilizing visual art, recycled materials, and living archives, we explore the complexities of forced removals, intergenerational trauma, and the resilience of indigenous memory.
Across disciplines, we transform memory into dialogue, discarded materials into meaning, and lived experience into spaces for healing, belonging and collective becoming, employ a variety of mediums to facilitate dialogue, preserve memory, and foster healing.
Art transforms what has been discarded. Through recycled materials and installation memory,, displacement and lived experience are resembelled into works of dignity, resistance, healing and renewal.
Photography becomes a act of witnessing. Portraits, Lanscapes and community preserved stories of identity, forced removals, belonging and the enduring relationship between people, memory and place.
An archive is not only about the past - it lives through us. Oral histories, photographs,objects,artworks and lived testimony preserve indigenous memory while allowing new generations to question, contribute and remember.
House4Love is built through relationship. Across South Africa, Africa and europe, artist, communities, families and collaborators have contributed their voices, memories and creativity to a living practise of Ubuntu; am because we are.
Fragments of conversations, messages, and memories gathered across countries and relationships. Private voices become a living archive of love, seperation, belonging and becoming.From DIstant Voices
No life is created alone. These voicess carry encounters with family, friends, artists, strangers and communities whose words have shaped the House4Love journey across Africa and Europe and Asia.
House4Love welcomes artists,communities, cultural organisations, researchers and kindred spirits who believe that art can connect, remember and heal. come with your story, your knowlewdge, your creativity or simply presence. In the spirit of Ubuntu- I am because we are - Let us create something meaningful together.A HOUSE that HOST ALL Nations.