Lerato Shadi

Lerato Shadi

BornNationalityBased In
N/ASouth AfricanBerlin
Biography

Lerato Shadi’s work challenges common assumptions to critique Western notions of history and make visible that which is invisible or overlooked. Working across video, performance and installation, and often employing repetitive processes, she argues the importance of centering - not just including - the marginalised body as a main figure of narrative experience. By placing herself at the forefront of her work, Shadi deals with the politics of cultural erasure and structural exclusion. She states: “It serves to challenge myself, and hopefully my audience as well, in how I/we are complicit in the violence of historical erasure by not fighting for a more inclusive and accurate historical narrative. I realised that – by just blindly or lazily accepting an inaccurate history – I would be sanctioning the problematic dominant narrative with my own inactivity.” ...

Selected Artworks
I know what a closed fist means
Lerato Shadi
I know what a closed fist means, 2020
Batho Ba Ha Ba Tlhaloganye
Lerato Shadi
Batho Ba Ha Ba Tlhaloganye, 2019
Batho ba me
Mabogo Dinku
Mosako Wa Nako I
Lerato Shadi
Mosako Wa Nako I, 2014
Moremogolo (Go Betlwa Wa Taola)
Lerato Shadi
Moremogolo (Go Betlwa Wa Taola), 2016
50 x 70cm
Series #1
Lerato Shadi
Series #1, 2020
61 x 59cm
Series #2
Lerato Shadi
Series #2, 2020
270 x 85cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Villa Romana Prize2018
Villa Romana Prize2018
Biennals
Dak’Art2012 - Dakar
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