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BIOGRAPHY OF Vanessa Tembane
Vanessa Tembane is a South African-born artist with Mozambican heritage. She is currently based in Johannesburg where she is completing a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. Tembane works primarily in digital print media and drawing.
Tembane’s mother left Mozambique in the early 1990’s to make a new home for herself in South Africa. Tembane’s series of collaged photographs splice images from her mother’s origins in Mozambique and the life that she has known growing up in South Africa. The new, hybrid images make reference to her mother’s migration and explores ideas of origin, nostalgia, heritage and belonging. The sensation of loss is inherent to Tembane’s work as she reflects on her own upbringing distant from her Mozambican relatives, their language and culture.
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