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My work takes a critical view of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing African pre-colonial and future histories, my work explores the varying relationships between memory, heritage, reparation, and care.

Having engaged in subjects as diverse as Black Radical Feminism ideals, African folklore, African cosmologies, and concepts of fantasy rooted in indigenous knowledge. My work ranges from the context of spoken word poetry to museums, performance art pieces to rituals for collective care.

The work assumes a variety of shapes to capture the viewer’s attention as a witness and memory keeper, evoking fresh and unforeseen cycles of thought and associations, and offering an opportunity for experimentation to test one’s views, viewpoints, and preconceptions.

In my current work, ‘A Cowrie for your Thoughts, short film’ I materialise my fascination with African cosmologies through ritual masking and visual art screenings. The film opens up to the South African landscape of open space and endless horizon. As a Black femme queer body who is often not given safe access to public space and with the long history of land dispossession in South Africa, behind the safety of my mask, I literally and figuratively ask the four elements (Earth, Fire, Wind, and Air) in my native tongue of Setswana to help me find my mother/motherland.

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