Shana Ellappa (b. 1999, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Cape Town. Her practice moves between visual art, life writing, and memory work, exploring personal and collective histories through acts of reclamation. Grounded in storytelling as both method and material, she constructs counter-archives that centre lived experience and familial memory. Drawing on oral histories and embodied knowledge, her work translates these narratives into visual forms through recurring symbolic languages. Informed by African feminisms, postcolonial theory, and autoethnography, Ellappa’s practice interrogates the intersections of identity, history, and belonging. She holds a Master’s degree in Art from Rhodes University.
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Shana Ellappa (b. 1999, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Cape Town. Her practice moves between visual art, life writing, and memory work, exploring personal and collective histories through acts of reclamation. Grounded in storytelling as both method and material, she constructs counter-archives that centre lived experience and familial memory. Drawing on oral histories and embodied knowledge, her work translates these narratives into visual forms through recurring symbolic languages. Informed by African feminisms, postcolonial theory, and autoethnography, Ellappa’s practice interrogates the intersections of identity, history, and belonging. She holds a Master’s degree in Art from Rhodes University.
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