Sethembile Msezane

Sethembile Msezane (born 1991 in KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African visual artist, public speaker and performer who is known for her work within fine arts.

Msezane uses her interdisciplinary practice which combines photography, film, sculpture, and drawing to explore issues focused on spirituality, politics and African knowledge systems.

Part of her works focus has been on the process of myth-making and its influence on constructing history as well the absence of the black female body in both narrative and physical spaces of historical commemoration.

Through her performances she explores the ways in which women are restricted by society in their movement, clothing and figures by using her own body as a human sculpture, dressed in symoblic costume to affirm her importance, existence and role in public spaces.

She additionally received a TAF and SYLT Emerging Artist Residency (TASA) award the same year and was a Barclays L'atelier top ten finalist.