Hamba Nhliziyo Yami, Uye eZulwini (Song for a Loved One Who's Departed, Bidding Them Farewell as They Go to Heaven)

Exhibited

Bkhz by Banele Khoza, Johannesburg, Liguqubele iZulu, 15 April to 20 May 2023.

Notes

“In charting this slow, painful and meandering journey of death, grief and rebirth, Msezane’s interweaving of cloud-like hair tufts and snuff on this porous canvas calls into being a spirit that is insistently and materially present. In so doing, she complicates and collapses the boundaries between spirit and matter, surface and material, memory and present reality, fragmentedness and repair. Interweaving the celestial and the terrestrial through these materials, Msezane reflects her grappling with complex and conflicting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states during painful seasons of transformation.”—Xola Nhliziyo

Xola Nhliziyo (2023) Bkhz by Banele Khoza, Liguqubele iZulu exhibition text, online, accessed 27 November 2025.

Provenance

Bkhz by Banele Khoza, Johannesburg.

The Georgina Jaffee Hair Matters Collection.