Artist Profile
Banji Chona
Zambezian artist and curator
Banji Chona is an artist, researcher and curator. Her current artistic practice is expressed through both earth-based alchemy, which involves using natural materials and visual poetry, expressed as digital collages which use anthropological photographs alongside personal objects, images and histories. These artistic offerings are grounded in the telluric and often spiritual practices of baTonga. Chona combines this with research and curation which allow the exploration of themes of identity, memory, and history grounded in a sense of storytelling and healing through alternative mediums. This act of reflection uses the self-composed methodology of Radical Zambezian Reimagination.