KHOTSO LAMOLA

Mmakhotso Lamola [she/her] is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer and spatial practitioner based in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the University of Cape Town, where she completed her M.Arch masters in architecture.

Her work avails itself of the immersive interstitial spaces of disciplines, unfolding through a vulnerable process-based research praxis. Here, she investigates the emotional landscapes that constitute urban space, where she attempts to forge new modes of archiving to create more personal, softer narratives about cities. She interrogates what she has termed the “invisible city” which is intangible, spiritual, atmospheric and emotional – to understand how we belong and cultivate agency in our various spaces. Lamola explores this phenomenon by examining the histories of both well-documented and lesser-known narratives, to unearth a complex and rich understanding of what it means to be a part of cities, landscapes and communities.