Kitso Lynn Lelliott

Kitso Lynn Lelliott received her PhD from Wits University for her work that emerges across fine arts, cinematic and theoretical practices. She is preoccupied with enunciations from spaces beyond epistemic power and the crisis such epistemically disobedient articulations cause to hegemony. Her current work and doctorate interrogate the production of the ‘real’ as it is shaped through contesting epistemes, their narratives and the shape these took over the waters of the Atlantic during the formative episode that shaped the modern age. Her video and installation work are an enactment of enunciating from elision and between historically subjugated subjectivities. The work privileges South-South relations that, while functioning in relation to, are imaginatively and epistemologically unmediated by the Global North. Her work has shown internationally in gallery and museum shows and she is alumna of the Berlinale Talents in Durban as well as Berlin. She was one of the Mail & Guardian’s leading 200 young South Africans and was laureate of the French Institute 2015 Visas pour la création grant. She exhibited in Bamako Encounters 2015, ’Seven Hills’ Kampala Biennale 2016, the Casablanca Biennale 2016 and the 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale in 2017. She was the 2017 laureate of the University of Bayreuth’s Iwalewahaus art prize and she was a featured guest artist at The Flaherty Seminar 2018. In 2019 she will take up a Mellon postdoctoral Fellowship with the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape as well as be an artists in residence with the Cidage Cité internationale des arts in Paris.