resident: D.M. Terblanche

Ping-Pong is welcoming D.M. Terblanche as our next resident!

D. M. Terblanche (b. 1998, Pretoria, South Africa) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist working primarily in photography. Their practice focuses on narrative documentary and portraiture, drawing from storytelling traditions across media to explore both personal and constructed realities. They began with cellphone self-portraits, developing a preference for analog processes while centering portraiture as an intimate space for self-reflection and confronting the past.

Photography serves Terblanche as both personal and political, exploring queer identities and the disquiet following a late autism diagnosis. Their work channels vulnerability into imagery between introspection and distortion, addressing trauma and uncertainty with raw emotional honesty. Influences include Nan Goldin, Ren Hang, and Jo Ractliffe.

In 2025, a selection of their work was presented by Saint Laurent Babylone, as curated by Anthony Vaccarello, Paris, and they were selected for Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, an international group exhibition by Photo Elysée.

During their residency D.M. will be working on their current project Grim, a series which exists within dream: a meditation on transformation, sacrifice, and the blurred boundary between myth and memory.

We are excited to host D.M. at Ping-Pong and look forward to sharing their work with our community in the coming weeks.

Can't wait? You can see D.M.’s work in the links below

Website: https://dmterblanche.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/d.m.terblanche/