Msaki hopes she can work hard enough for her music studio to be a few metres from the drawing studio so that her works can flow into each other.
sanda Lusaseni Mvana, professionally known as Msaki, became a household name because her songs motivate, inspire and bring hope to South Africans. The Standard Bank Young Artist for Music returns to Makhanda, a place she associates with trauma, to open her visual arts exhibition,At the age of six her parents sent her to school in Makhanda.
“I don’t think my parents left me there to hurt me. No, they took me there because they wanted me to get a better life and be educated, but all the experiences that followed were very painful,” Msaki recalls. features installation, drawings and a series of videos she had previously recorded in Makhanda.
“The process did not take very long, probably a month. I was in Los Angeles when I created these pieces. During the day I would be in the studio recording and later in the day I would be in the studio drawing,” Msaki says. She hopes she can work hard enough for her music studio to be a few metres from the drawing studio so that her works can flow into each other.
For the National Arts Festival exhibition in the Atherstone Room at the monument, Msaki lit impepho , an African herb used to communicate with the ancestors. The scent filled the hallways, which is, in a way, an invitation to the exhibition that begins with Msaki using a calabash, water, impepho and a song.
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