Buhlebezwe Siwani (b. Johannesburg 1987) works with performance, photography, sculpture and installation. Her work interrogates the patriarchal framing of the black female body and black female experience within the South African context. As an initiated Sangoma, a spiritual healer that works within the space of the death and the living, Buhlebezwe focused her ar tistic practice into rituality and the relationship between Christianity and African spirituality. Central to her work is her own body, which operates in multiple registers as subject, object, form, medium, material, language and site. Buhlebezwe’s project s deals with the relationship between ancestral rituals and modern life, touching social and political topics, such as the female body, black communities, histories of colonization and the paradoxes of our contemporary society, all seen through the filter of the artist’s own biography and experience. She currently lives and works between Cape Town and Amsterdam.