Palesa Motheo is a multimedia artist working in sculpture and painting whose practice draws on Sotho and Matebele heritage. She explores cultural memory, the matriarchive, and the intersections of tradition and modernity in post-colonial Southern Africa, investigating how histories are archived, erased, and reimagined.
Her work engages with locality as a living archive, examining how streets, homes, and landscapes carry ancestral memory alongside contemporary negotiations of identity and belonging. Working in wood, stone, paint, and mixed media, Motheo creates sculptural and wall-based works that reference domestic and ritual objects, holding space for the interweaving of heritage, memory, and environment.
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Palesa Motheo is a multimedia artist working in sculpture and painting whose practice draws on Sotho and Matebele heritage. She explores cultural memory, the matriarchive, and the intersections of tradition and modernity in post-colonial Southern Africa, investigating how histories are archived, erased, and reimagined.
Her work engages with locality as a living archive, examining how streets, homes, and landscapes carry ancestral memory alongside contemporary negotiations of identity and belonging. Working in wood, stone, paint, and mixed media, Motheo creates sculptural and wall-based works that reference domestic and ritual objects, holding space for the interweaving of heritage, memory, and environment.
