Photo by Timothy Gabb Francois Knoetze was born in South Africa in 1989. He completed his BFA at Rhodes University, Makhanda in 2012. He works across sculpture, performance, video and installation, and is interested in the connections between social histories and material culture. As a storyteller and psychogeographer, his roaming costumed performances and videos pick at the socio-spatial force-fields that attempt to rigidly order the contaminated, folded, and entangled worlds of people and things.
His first major series, Cape Mongo (2013-2016) was created as part of his MFA degree (Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT) and has been exhibited extensively both locally and internationally (at La Triennale di Milano in 2019, Kunsthal KAdE in 2018, Wiener Festwochen in 2015, LagosPhoto Festival in 2015, Somerset House in 2015).