Duduetsang Lamola

blk banaana [Duduetsang Lamola, b. 1991 in London, UK] is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Through the use of collage, digital art, moving image and installation, she explores the relationship between fragmentation and speculative reconstruction in order to challenge a hegemonic, Western perception of reality that has been mediated through anthropological violence.

She was selected to participate in Sira Virtual Residency 2020: RUST, hosted by La Teinturerie based in Antananarivo, Madagascar. In early 2021, she will be participating alongside seven international artists in Radical Black Femme Project residency based in Seattle, Washington, curated by Jade Solomon of Solo Magic. She will also be taking part in Print&play 2021: inside out, a collaborative residency and exhibition based in Amsterdam, due for completion in May 2021.

As an emerging artist, she has collaborated with many artists and organisations internationally and on the African continent, working as both a designer and artistic collaborator. She was commissioned by Mushroom Hour Half Hour as a visual artist, designer and creative director to create the vinyl and CD covers for dumama + kechou’s debut album buffering juju, released in 2020. She designed print and online promotional material for “a n c e s t r a l b o d y n o i s e” (curated by artist Gugulethu Duma for Oyoun Berlin in 2020), as well as presented her video installation Fragmented Trajectories (2020) as part of the final exhibition and performance.