Sonya Rademeyer

(b 1964, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town)

Sonya Rademeyer is interested in exploring and expressing deep empathy through sound and movement. Through her practice of deep-listening; she tries to connect and convey the physical experience of ”˜seeing'; allowing her body to determine her mark-making. The resulting gestural line-work often represents ideas around entanglement; fragility and complexity. In her more recent work; she grapples with the relationship between empathy and whiteness; viewed from a post-colonial perspective. Connected to her embodied work is a strong performative element. Drawing - or elements of drawing - will often be incorporated into live performances whereby her gestural lines and traces an are sometimes through or onto the surface of the fabric she is wearing.