Words and objects are two ways of working with meaning. Through beadwork, meaning is preserved, transformed and embodied in material. Through writing, it is articulated, interpreted and carried across time and context.
Khumoetsile Seamogano’s practice moves between these forms, exploring how objects accumulate significance through use, exchange, ritual and inheritance. At its centre is an ongoing enquiry into beads as carriers of cultural knowledge and value, and the ways these are understood, exchanged and passed between generations.
Working with beads and stones, Seamogano draws on the movement of materials across geographies and generations to explore the relationships between adornment, memory and material culture. Through making, writing and research, her work contributes to ongoing dialogues around how traditions are understood, how meanings shift across contexts, and what we choose to carry forward.
About Khumoetsile
Khumoetsile Seamogano is a Botswana-based artist, writer and researcher whose work spans material culture, writing and making. Her interests have developed through experiences of living and working across Southern Africa and Asia, and a longstanding curiosity about the relationships between people, objects and the worlds they inhabit. She is also the founder of Girl Gone Authentic, a cultural platform exploring the intersections of heritage, contemporary life, craft and materiality.