Mmakhotso Lamola
is a South African artist and spatial practitioner based in Cape Town. Her work focuses on investigations in the in-between spaces of disciplines where she feels her work exists. She received her formal training in architecture at the University of Cape Town [2012 - 2014] and completed her postgraduate Bachelor of Architecture with Honours at the University of Witwatersrand [Johannesburg, 2017].
She has been an artist in residence at The Centre for the Less Good Idea [Johannesburg, 2018] and at Grigri Pixel Residency hosted by MediaLab Prado [Madrid, 2018]. She has been a participant in the Live Art Workshops, hosted by the Institute of Creative Art, where she presented the work Belonging - an exploration into reclaiming self, body, community, home and city [Cape Town, 2019]. She has participated in a group exhibition, A Conversation [Cape Town, 2018], where she unpacks Belonging as a video installation. Her poetry has been published in New Landscapes Anthology, published by Lungs Project [2019], and her writing has been featured in the Summer Flowers Pumflet, published by Wolff Architects [2019].
When navigating the city, she finds herself interested in how the layers of socio-politics, identity and the everyday mundane collide into an urban landscape. She is concerned with interrogating the emotional landscape of the city and how this can be interpreted into various mediums. She is a collaborative partner in the project Limbic Resonance, which attempts to unearth the city’s untold story through personal narrative.
Her practice can only be described as existing at the node various intersections and is constantly unfolding. She focuses on this notion of emotional landscapes, and integrates this with her current practice and knowledge as a way to work and exist in those liminal moments.
CV available upon request.
CLIENTS :
Brine
Death by Xoko
Quill Press
APP
Chotto Motto
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