Khomotso Phetla is a mixed-media artist from Limpopo, South Africa. He grew up in the rural countryside, where he first learned to shape the world with his hands from riverbank clay.

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His practice centres on freedom and on archiving indigenous knowledge. Working across canvas, paper, photography and sculpture, he builds his surfaces in layers, pairing charcoal with loose washes of colour to carry the oral histories of his family and community into physical form.
 

His grandfather sits at the heart of the work. Threads of
 

Hope draws on the lotto numbers his grandfather used to predict the future, a meditation on the dreams that live beyond financial constraint. Borderless Grounds, his latest body of work, asks what becomes possible when the lines drawn to divide us begin to dissolve.

 

Khomotso is represented by Bookings and Brushes. Borderless Grounds is showing at Onomo Hotels, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.