CURRENT A-I-R SENZENI MARASELA
Senzeni Marasela (b. 1977 - Thokoza, RSA), is a cross-disciplinary artist who explores photography, vid- eo, prints, and mixed-medium installations involving textiles and embroidery. Her work deals with history, memory, and personal narrative, emphasising historical gaps and overlooked figures. She graduated from the University
of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1998, and shortly thereafter com- pleted a residency at the South African National Gallery, culminating in her work for the Gallery’s Fresh exhibition series. Marasela’s work has been widely exhibited in South Africa, Europe, and the United States.
Her work features in prominent local and international collections, including the Newark Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and MoMA, New York, as well as some private collections such as the Leridon collection in Paris, the Harry David collection in Athens, and the Sindika Dokolo collection in Angola.
PILOT A-I-R 2023 ERIN LEANN MITCHELL
I am a textile artist from Birmingham, AL. My work is an expansion of the southern quilting tradition, using a mixture of textiles and collage gathered in textile markets and fabric stores from Alabama to Johannesburg to Harlem. These multidimensional assemblages render the realities of southern Blackness into radical new imaginings.
I find solace in my southern matriarchal family and feature Black women who serve as more than sapphire caricatures. They set the pace and are the movement that carries us forward. Their feet hold the knowledge of the Gullah Geechee and tales of the Clotilda. I find inspiration in the stitches of Gee’s Bend quilting. Their artistry forged a path I traverse in creating works that give voice, expression, and endurance to Black life. As a continuum of those who came before and those who will come after, I deliver messages of a brighter future in the Black experience.
PILOT A-I-R 2023 Non Mark Maker BRAD FOX
Brad Fox is the author of The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths (Astra House 2023) and the novel To Remain Nameless (Rescue Press 2020). His work has appeared in in The New Yorker, Guernica, and The Paris Review Daily. He is a contributing editor at The Public Domain Review.
PILOT A-I-R 2022 PHUMZILE KHANYILE
PHOTOGRAPHER
Phumzile Khanyile is a Market Photo Workshop graduate. She is the recipient of the 2015 Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography, and This afforded the young artist the opportunity to produce a body of work under the guidance of renowned photographer Ayana V. Jackson. She has been awarded the 2018 CAP Prize.
Since her debut exhibition at the Market Photo Workshop in 2017, Khanyile’s has been extensively featured in the press, The Financial Times, Aperture, The British Journal of Photography, Elephant, Art Africa Magazine… and has also been part of several exhibitions including AFROTOPIA, at the African Photography Encounters in Bamako and at the Africa Museum in Bergen Dal, Not the Usual Suspects, at Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Evora Africa, African Passions, at Palacio Cadaval in Evora… Her work features already in local and international collections, in Europe and the US.
Phumzile Khanyile
Get in Touch with Phumzile
Po Box 52576 – Saxonwold 2132 – Johannesburg – South Africa
+27(0)832927589