Resego Sefora (b. 2003) is a fine artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Working at the intersection of sonic installation and camera-less photography, Sefora’s practice investigates the materiality of sound and the body as primary, formative languages. By expanding on the "sonic" and physical imprints as tangible media, she utilises these registers as a decolonial tool to subvert traditional Western art-making methodologies.
Her work seeks to unfix postcolonial subjectivities, challenging the perceived silence of her colonial foundations through resonance and vibration and light-sensitive documentation. Sefora’s broader ways of making explore the tension between labour and leisure, utilising time-consuming, traditional chemical processes to record moments of stillness and sound.
Drawing inspiration from the auditory and domestic landscape of her family home in Dwarsberg, North West, Sefora explores themes of belonging and collective voice. She holds a BA in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, where she developed a unique approach to depicting sound through photograms. Influenced by contemporary critical theory, her practice remains centred on interpretations of belonging and collective force, articulating potential futures where Black existence are fully realised through the convergence of sound, image, and time.
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Resego Sefora (b. 2003) is a fine artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Working at the intersection of sonic installation and camera-less photography, Sefora’s practice investigates the materiality of sound and the body as primary, formative languages. By expanding on the "sonic" and physical imprints as tangible media, she utilises these registers as a decolonial tool to subvert traditional Western art-making methodologies.
Her work seeks to unfix postcolonial subjectivities, challenging the perceived silence of her colonial foundations through resonance and vibration and light-sensitive documentation. Sefora’s broader ways of making explore the tension between labour and leisure, utilising time-consuming, traditional chemical processes to record moments of stillness and sound.
Drawing inspiration from the auditory and domestic landscape of her family home in Dwarsberg, North West, Sefora explores themes of belonging and collective voice. She holds a BA in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, where she developed a unique approach to depicting sound through photograms. Influenced by contemporary critical theory, her practice remains centred on interpretations of belonging and collective force, articulating potential futures where Black existence are fully realised through the convergence of sound, image, and time.
