Sekai Machache
Sekai Machache is a Scottish-Zimbabwean multi-media visual artist and curator who lives in Glasgow. They studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee between 2008-2015, and their practice spans photography, performance, and film. Machache is deeply interested in exploring notions of the self and the psyche within a psychoanalytical framework and often photographs herself as the subject of her work. Pose is an important part of Machache’s digital studio-based photographic works, where they create complex narratives and symbolic imagery focusing on spirituality, imagination, Black Scottish identity, gender, and legacies of colonialism. Their work is also invested in issues related to the climate crisis and the Scottish landscape. Machache often uses body paint, elaborate costume, and carefully staged lighting as part of their performances to the camera. Machache works internationally and collaboratively and is a founding and organising member of the Yon Afro Collective (YAC), which exists to challenge the (mis)representation of women of colour in Scotland.
