Sizobika, Sicele Indawo marks the debut solo exhibition of Selloane Moeti. Known for her vivid and powerful paintings rooted in themes of ancestry and spiritual memory, Moeti now presents a body of work that turns toward a deeply personal exploration of displacement within the process of entering marriage. This first solo presentation offers an intimate yet layered exploration of love, belonging, and survival, inviting audiences into the artist’s ongoing search for place and identity.

In many African traditions, marriage is not only a union of two people but of two families, lineages, and ancestral systems. For women, this often requires crossing into another kraal, submitting to another family’s rituals, and realigning with a new set of ancestors. This passage, though rooted in love and kinship, can be a rupture. A woman may lose her name, her rituals of belonging, and the connection of ancestral ties that once grounded her. She must adapt to a new order while carrying the echoes of the one she has left behind.

This body of work meditates on the complexities of intercultural marriages. Two families bring together differing traditions, belief systems, and expectations. And within these unions, there are constant negotiations on which customs are upheld, which are let go, and which are reinvented in order to sustain love across difference. For women already marked by displacement, these negotiations become even more charged and layered, often leading towards a precarious union.

Through oil painting and the symbolic use of color, Moeti channels these experiences into dreamlike compositions that reflect both personal memory and shared cultural practice. Materials such as red clay, holy ash, and impepho act as spiritual residues, grounding the work in ancestral presence while also marking the vulnerability of transition. Her imagery aims to invoke both the tenderness of kinship and the quiet violences of erasure, holding space for the contradictions that African women must navigate in the pursuit of belonging.

Ultimately, Sizobika, Sicele Indawo asks: what is inherited, what is surrendered, and what is remade in the crossing from one lineage to another? It is an offering toward healing, survival, and the possibility of creating new rituals of belonging within the fractures of displacement.