Rehema Chachage

Rehema Chachage is a visual artist whose practice can be viewed as a performative archive which  untraditionally collects stories, rituals and other oral traditions in different media (performance,  photography, video, text as well as physical installations); which traces hi/stories directly tied to (and connecting with) her matrilineage; and, which utilizes methodologies which are both embodied and instinctual, employing written texts, oral and aural stories, melodies, and relics from several re-enacted/performed rituals as sources of research.  

She has a BA in Fine Art (2009) from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town; and an  MA in Contemporary Art Theory (2018) from Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently she is doing her PhD in practice with the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna with her research focusing on the archive and its methodologies, specifically observing ways of doing the archive differently through one’s practice as an artist.