(b 1964Zimbabwe. 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.
