In ‘AmaHubo’ – the isiZulu word for ceremonial songs – Siwani explores alternative forms of knowledge and spirituality within the context of a historically traumatic South Africa. She examines black women’s bodies as active sites of cultural memory and archives of colonial violence.

Buhlebezwe Siwani lives and works in Cape Town and Amsterdam, working 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 working in the space between the dead and the living – she focuses her artistic practice on ritual and on the relationships between Christianity and African spirituality.

She explores alternative forms of knowledge and spirituality within historically traumatic South Africa, examining Black women's bodies as active sites of cultural memory.