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Join us for a breakfast conversation between artist Buhlebezwe Siwani and curator Christine Eyene

Buhlebezwe Siwani works with performance, photography, sculpture and installation.

Siwani interrogates the patriarchal framing of the black female body and female experience within the South African context.

As an initiated Sangoma, a spiritual healer that works within the space of the death and the living, Siwani focused her artistic practice into rituality and the relationship between Christianity and African spirituality. Central to her work is her own body, which operates in multiple registers as subject, object, form, medium, material, language, and site.

Her work can be described, although not literally, as the documentation of a diverse set of performances, which are rendered through video, photography, sculpture, installation and works on paper. 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 colonisation and the paradoxes of our contemporary society, all seen through the filter of the artist’s own biography and experience.

Buhlebezwe Siwani was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and currently lives and works between Cape Town and Amsterdam.

Friday 11 October , 11.00 – 12.00

Mimosa House
47 Theobalds Road
London WC1X 8SP

Free event, open to all. Book you place here.