Diablo Santana & Moratiwa Molema

Moratiwa Ute Molema is a Motswana interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across fine art, sculpture, choreography, and film. With a painter’s soul and a sculptor’s hands, her work bridges canvas and movement, clay and breath - shaping stories that dance between the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her visual language is interwoven with sonic landscapes, spiritual archetypes, and indigenous futurism. As an artistic director and choreographer, she has led landmark productions in Botswana and beyond.

Diablo Santana (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator, born and raised in Gaborone, Botswana. His practice centers on destigmatizing difficult conversations around politics, masculinity, cultural heritage, and postcolonial identity within the context of Botswana and Southern Africa.

Experimental in nature, his work spans painting, drawing, collage, photography, video, installation, and music production — often blurring the boundary between abstraction and representation. Recurring themes include personal grief, atheism, masculinity, and the psychological weight of historical memory. He currently lives and works in Gaborone, where he continues to build community through mentorship, curation, and local arts advocacy.

This marks Diablo and Moratiwa's first collaborative project.