Lesiba Mabitsela
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Lesiba Mabitsela
First Name
Lesiba
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Mabitsela
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South African
Biography
Lesiba Mabitsela is a South African interdisciplinary artist, designer and Fashion Practitioner currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lesiba continues to explore the role of fashion designer/practitioner by incorporating fashion design with immersive technologies, critical fashion and performance studies resulting in interdisciplinary modes of engaging with and producing fashion. His work which regularly explores the subject of African masculine identities transforms the garment into an extension of one’s lineage communicating one’s history, culture, social hierarchy, aspirations whilst renegotiating relationships between the garment and the body.
Ongoing projects include REINSTITUTE – fashion collections and performance interventions to engage with African art collections and archives with the aim of rearticulating pre-colonial indigenous African dress as African fashion history instead of scientific artifact or art object – and The Cutting Room Project – a digital archive presented as an interactive storyboard which juxtaposes the construction of the three-piece suit with its site of making, whilst investigating the history of labour in South Africa’s garment manufacturing sector including their connections to the oppression of women of colour, and the legacy of Apartheid’s spacial planning. Lesiba’s practice is interwoven with his role as a consultant, academic and educator. He is the Co-Director of the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) which he founded in 2019 with Dr. Erica de Greef. AFRI advocates for critical fashion research from the African continent that is led by decolonial fashion theories and access to African fashion histories through digital means.
Ongoing projects include REINSTITUTE – fashion collections and performance interventions to engage with African art collections and archives with the aim of rearticulating pre-colonial indigenous African dress as African fashion history instead of scientific artifact or art object – and The Cutting Room Project – a digital archive presented as an interactive storyboard which juxtaposes the construction of the three-piece suit with its site of making, whilst investigating the history of labour in South Africa’s garment manufacturing sector including their connections to the oppression of women of colour, and the legacy of Apartheid’s spacial planning. Lesiba’s practice is interwoven with his role as a consultant, academic and educator. He is the Co-Director of the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) which he founded in 2019 with Dr. Erica de Greef. AFRI advocates for critical fashion research from the African continent that is led by decolonial fashion theories and access to African fashion histories through digital means.
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