Sphesihle Hlatshwayo
Johannesburg · b. 2005
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Una Hlatshwayo
59.4 x 84.1 cm
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Between sleep and flight
59.4 x 84.1 cm
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Those who stand before me
59.4 x 84.1 cm
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A meditation on belonging
59.4 x 84.1 cm
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Sphesihle Brian Hlatshwayo is a multidisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, born in Benoni, working across drawing, painting, sculpture and fire-based techniques. They trained at the East Rand School of the Arts and are completing a Fine Arts diploma at Tshwane University of Technology.
Their work has been shown at the Pretoria Art Museum as part of the Sasol New Signatures competition, Contra Joburg, FD Contemporary and The View Room Gallery, and they worked with Nedbank on the first South African edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival. They have been featured on eNCA, Newzroom Afrika and TimesLIVE.
Sphesihle draws with candle smoke, a technique called fumage, letting each mark emerge through a conversation between intention and chance. Having first made art with very few materials, they use burn marks, smoke and fragile surfaces as metaphors for endurance, transformation and renewal.
The work asks how value is assigned and why some lives and histories are overlooked, finding dignity in people and objects that are often unseen.