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Sethembile Msezane Quotes

born 1991 South Africa

Sethembile Msezane (born 1991 in KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African visual artist, public speaker and performer who is known for her work within fine arts. Msezane uses her interdisciplinary practice which combines photography, film, sculpture, and drawing to explore issues focused on spirituality, politics and African knowledge systems.

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My current practice has been a personal journey of connecting with my spirituality as it has always been my guide in creating some of my older works that have been prescient in nature.

For this reason, among others, I don’t believe that we need statues. The preservation of history and the act of remembering can be achieved in more memorable and effective ways.

Through my work, I have realized a lot about the world around me: how we move through spaces, who we choose to celebrate and who we remember.

The body of work takes us on a non-linear route through the stories and realities of select black women, reminding us that once upon a time they too existed and influenced their societies.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sethembile Msezane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.