Michelle N. Mlati (b. 1993 South Africa) is a curator, urbanist, and appointed PhD researcher in architecture based in Brussels, Belgium at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, focusing on inclusive ecological landscape design. Her work centers on creating intersections between art and the architectural and urban design practices that span from the 1960s to the present through an intersectional environmentalist lens. She has guest lectured the series Curating Botanical Collections (2021), part of the Strategies for Art in Times of Change course convened by Dr. Portia Malatjie at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. As a curator, Michelle has worked with various artists in East Africa and continues independent practice experimenting with The Forest and Desert School, which emerged from Sudan in the 1960s as a school of literature and poetry that influenced artistic practices of multiple generations. Her most recent work is The Forest and Desert School Revisited (2022-23), a group show of 13 artists exhibited at Circle Art Gallery in Nairobi and also in collaboration with Borderlands Art based in Uganda and Galerie Polaris in Paris.
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