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Aneesah Girie is a South African artist currently completing her Honours in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her practice is centred around the ideas of materiality – both in its physical forms as well as in its metaphorical value. She is interested in how these meanings and interpretations are carried through in material identities, histories, identification, representation and re-presentation. Through adopting different forms of art practices and modalities such as sculpture, traditional forms of weaving and digital manipulations, the work is allowed room to be questioned, interpreted, observed and re-observed in multiple different ways.