Join BNAP Foundation Senior Curator Palesa Suthane, artist Khanyisa Agnes Brancon, and Africa Collect Director Xolani Shezi as they explore Khanyisa’s work, her creative ambitions, and the impact of the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize on her career. 

Born Tzaneen, Limpopo, Khanyisa is an interdisciplinary artist who completed her BAFA at WITS. Her artistic practice employs photography, print making,and installation as mediums of expression. Brancon uses an interdisciplinary approach to textiles as vessels that honour the use of materiality in her work. Her practice is an excavation of time unravelling timelines of past and present histories. A moment of reclamation, her work creates narratives that hold space for memory, never forgetting what was. Grand themes of spacial genealogy, colonial erasure, maternal lineage, and indigenous knowledge systems are addressed throughout her work. She belongs to a collective bonded by the practice of printmaking with black women artists from Limpopo.

The printmaking collective, Boteng, fuses materiality and black histories within its art practice. Brancon plans to actively contribute to the art ecosystem as a decision-maker by creating platforms of economic inclusion for artists. With her unwavering dedication to the practice of art, her direction leans towards establishing a multidisciplinary career path in professional artistic practice, institution affiliated curation and the pursuit of cultural entrepreneurship.