Refiloe Namise
Refiloe Namise a Johannesburg-based artist who completed her MFA in Creative Research and Practice (2022) and a BA in Fine Art (2016) at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Namise’s work explores the making and preserving of a place: Alexandra. Through various sites in Alex, her work re-members and re-articulates particular moments and histories. These engagements develop ways of writing, recording, storing and sharing social knowledge, heritage and culture. Though much of these concerns are reflected in the present configurations of Alex, a deepened understanding of its existence as a place often demands a return to its past.
Her work is multi-disciplinary, incorporating image, text, sound, video and performance. Namise grapples with the notions of return, re-membering and re-articulation through poetic gestures in which she re- enacts historical moments.
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