ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multidisciplinary artist guided by a deep interest in the metaphysical and the unseen. Rooted in African spiritual traditions and personal memory, my work is an intuitive exploration of the human experience — an attempt to give form to the invisible forces that shape who we are.
I often move across mediums, allowing each material to speak its own language while contributing to a symbolic narrative about the harmony between mind, body, and soul.
Much of my visual language is inherited and inspired — shaped by the legacy of my late father, Samson Mnisi, and visionary thinkers like Sun Ra. Their influence has opened pathways for me to explore ancestral wisdom, cosmic consciousness, and the spaces where ritual, imagination, and identity intersect.
My practice embraces abstraction not as an escape, but as a return — an invitation to remember, reconnect, and reimagine.
Through layered compositions and intuitive mark-making, I aim to create work that resonates both spiritually and emotionally. My art is both a personal offering and a communal gesture — meant to reflect, awaken, and realign.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
In 2023, Mnisi presented Pula, a solo exhibition at Kakdel Art Hub in Tel Aviv. The show explored the cultural and spiritual symbolism of water within African cosmology, using mixed-media works to meditate on cycles of renewal, memory, and connection.
That same year, he completed three international artist residencies in Tel Aviv — at Herzl 140, Under1000, and Kakdel Art. These residencies allowed Mnisi to further expand his multidisciplinary practice, engaging with new materials, communities, and site-responsive projects.
In 2024, Mnisi’s work was included in the Turbine Art Fair in Johannesburg, one of South Africa’s leading contemporary art fairs, where his pieces continued to reflect his engagement with themes of metaphysics and the abstraction of personal and collective experience.
His practice remains rooted in an intuitive process, allowing works to evolve organically as meditations on the visible and invisible forces that shape human existence. Mnisi continues to develop a body of work that bridges ancestral knowledge with contemporary abstraction, offering visual spaces for reflection, healing, and spiritual inquiry.
