Cheriese
Dilrajh is an artist, writer, socially-engaged researcher and street-knowledge thug at heart born in the
coastal town of Durban in South Africa. She believes in the
Indian Ocean as a world of possibilities shared between African and Indian
lands and studies the way the sunset appears to be a Sahara of hues in-between the
colour spectrum of pink and blues. She enjoys the sea, the sky and
radically dreaming under non-linear time. Her practice is centred around migration
and multiculturalism amongst other inquisitions. Using video, film, installation, sound and writing to invoke the otherwise, she looks at the creation of the otherworldly through the political and vice versa.
These worlds are birthed by inheritance and are a becoming of herstory but are
simultaneously subjected to their own trajectory through the entangled mess
that is linear time.
She holds a
BA in Fine Art (Johannesburg, South Africa), an MA in Art and Politics
(Goldsmiths, London), and has exhibited in Centre d’art waza, Lumbumbashi (Congo), Mahal Art Space, Marrakesh (Morocco), BASEL (Switzerland), and Guggengeim Musuem (New York) to name a few. More recently, her dissertation titled ‘Navigating the African-Indian Sea as a site of reworlding in South Africa’s post-1994 era’ has been published by the Ameena Gafoor center under the emerging research section. (See ‘texts/essays’ for more).