Mmatshepo Rakhalakane
Mmatshepo Rakhalakane, born 2000, is a South African multidisciplinary artist working in film production and visual art painting. The two artforms allow her to breathe stories to life as they encompass multiple mediums into one and with her enormous spectrum of imagination, sharpened powers of observation, an inquisitive mind and great love for human beings she is able to create a piece of work that is unified in vision.
Her work reflects profoundly the state of mind and it’s never ending process of seeking. She is still on a journey of finding her own distinct voice as a creative but the re-occurring themes she seems to always integrate into her art are of the mind space. Forever in awe of the intricacy of the mind, our thoughts, how every inch of it operates in dreams and reality and unceasingly inquisitive about the ways of life. A young mind seeking and the more she does the more it gets complicated yet she finds beauty in the chaos and that is what HER work of ART does, it BEAUTIFIES CHAOS.
She hopes for her work of art to elicit a feeling in you, as it has in her, that makes you look beyond what art is on the surface and appreciate it for the alchemy it is to the people of the world whom are constantly seeking. “Imparting a feeling within a stranger through art may seem small and insignificant but it sure reciprocates as the greatest and most rewarding feeling to me as the creator,” says Mmatshepo Rakhalakane.
Exhibitions
2013, National library week competition winner under visual art category
2017, Department of Education group exhibition, South African State theatre, Pretoria
2018, Rain Of Art Festival, Pretoria
2021, “Colored” Solo Exhibition, South African State Theatre, Pretoria
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