Thato Makatu (b. 2000 Oslo) is a South African artist/cultural producer in training and printmaker from Boksburg who is pursuing their Honours in Curatorship at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Born in Norway and having moved across the world several times during their childhood, their artistic work is concerned with working through notions of home and stability through the physical aspects of domestic spaces. They engage with questions of how these spaces interact with evocations of memory and formation of identity. Because of their dislocated upbringing, Thato has used their art to work through how the home is constructed both physically and socially. Focusing on how the domestic space interacts with our memories, and how objects in the home are activated in our memories through time, the many interactions we have with these objects and with other people. Through their Hons in Curatorship, they have become increasingly interested in how homemaking practices exist culturally, and how the family can be a way to navigate research and accessing cultural identity in the home.
×Thato Makatu (b. 2000 Oslo) is a South African artist/cultural producer in training and printmaker from Boksburg who is pursuing their Honours in Curatorship at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Born in Norway and having moved across the world several times during their childhood, their artistic work is concerned with working through notions of home and stability through the physical aspects of domestic spaces. They engage with questions of how these spaces interact with evocations of memory and formation of identity. Because of their dislocated upbringing, Thato has used their art to work through how the home is constructed both physically and socially. Focusing on how the domestic space interacts with our memories, and how objects in the home are activated in our memories through time, the many interactions we have with these objects and with other people. Through their Hons in Curatorship, they have become increasingly interested in how homemaking practices exist culturally, and how the family can be a way to navigate research and accessing cultural identity in the home.
