Buhlebezwe Siwani

Buhlebezwe Siwani works with performance, photography, sculpture, video and installation and is based between Amsterdam and Cape Town. Her work interrogates the patriarchal framing of the black female body and black female experience within the South African context. Each of her projects deals with the relationship between ancestral rituals and modern life, touching social and political topics, such as the female body, black communities, histories of colonization and the paradoxes of our contemporary society, all seen through the filter of the artist’s own biography and experience. Siwani completed her BA at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg and her MA at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts. She has exhibited at the Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town; a site-specific exhibition in collaboration with APEX Art, New York City; in 13th Avenue, Alexandra township; and Stevenson; Cape Town among others.