Lesedi Modisane
His practice interrogates the concepts of what he calls ancestral identity and ancestral presence which exists in the way that ancestors impact the living emotionally, philosophically and physically in accordance with his Tswana culture and the philosophy of Hauntology by Jacques Derrida. He uses his artworks as ways of interrogating the existence and the identity of his late brother (Dineo), who passed away before he was born. He uses tree branches, logs, red rope, green human figures, and forest landscapes as ways of showing his own visualization of what an ancestor would look like, alongside the metaphors of ancestral presence, values, and ties to ancestral identity by placing these objects in ways that create a dialogue between themselves, the green human figures in his paintings and the sculptures.
Modisane began his professional art career in 2022, and so far, he has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including the FADA 3rd year drawing exhibition (2024) which he curated alongside Gordon Froud, exhibited in the 2024 August House open studio, Jan Smuts House Transformation Project (2024), UJ 3rd Year exhibition (2024) and the FADA show (2024). In 2025, he curated and exhibited in an exhibition titled Vanished (2025), he was part of the 2025 Student exhibition at the Pretoria Association of Arts (2025).
