Balekane Legoabe (b.1995) is a visual artist, illustrator, curator and animator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She works both digitally and traditionally. She matriculated from The National School of the Arts in 2013, having specialised in Visual Arts. She then went on to study at The Open Window Institute where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication with a specialisation in Illustration, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Film Arts specialising in Motion Design and Stop Motion and puppetry. In 2019 Balekane had her work showcased at the Turbine Art Fair as well as the FNB Joburg Art Fair. In the same year she was the recipient of the StateoftheART Gallery Award. She has taken part in a number of group shows since 2021 and showcased work at the Turbine Art Fair. She has works in two public collections: The William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberly, South Africa and The Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany.
In terms of theme, her work explores the concept of liminality in relation to emotional states. With regards to subject matter, she gravitates toward the use of organic shapes and objects, specifically natural environments, plants, animals and human figures stating that these elements are living and breathing, thus we feel a stronger connection to them. She desires that her work create a visceral experience that encourages and propels viewers to tap into the complexity and obscurity of the emotions that they feel and recognise that they exist within a liminal space.
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