Installation · 2022
Philisa: Zinza Mphefumlo Wami
A portal for spiritual reflection where beaded tapestries, cleansing salt, and a wailing soundtrack create space for ancestral mourning and healing.
Lhola Amira
Lhola Amira is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, healing, and ancestral knowledge.
Career
Performance Artist
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
South African
Additional Languages
English
Pronouns
They/Them
About
- Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
- South African
- Pronouns
- They/Them
- Location
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Additional Languages
- English
Video (single-channel projection, 16 minutes) · 2018
IRMANDADE: The Shape of Water in Pindorama
Film of Amira’s journey through Bahia, Brazil, washing Afro-Brazilian women’s feet in the ocean in a ritual addressing diasporic woundedness and healing.