"My artmaking practice serves and reimagines conceptions and understandings of a certain idea, through time, identity and tradition."
Puseletso Masemene (b. 2000) is a Mosotho female artist, born and raised in Lesotho. Masemene specialises in printmaking, but also engages with other mediums like oil paint, charcoal and collage. She is currently pursuing her BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg.
Masemene’s practice is grounded in translating indigenous instrumental music into visuals, which speaks to the sound and/or frequency of a colour and its accompanying emotions. Her prints often include three layers of line and colour, representing different sounds; decisions around the layering being greatly informed by the solfeggio sequence, which speaks to the colour of sound and the frequency of colour.
“The repetitive nature of the prints intuitively resonate with the nature of the song; the techniques employed became the song, the hand movements while carving the lino and swinging of the printing press were the song, every movement was the song. It was the raw unfiltered emotion of pure joy and gratification, while experiencing harmony, that was the most pleasurable.”
