Hemali Khoosal is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker based in Johannesburg. Through her filmmaking, painting, drawing, printmaking, writing, and video installations, Hemali seeks to cultivate connection, emotional resonance, and deeper understanding. Her practice is sensitive to the materials and process, allowing them to reveal their possibilities and invite new impulses.

Often inspired by interactions with others, her work explores how people perceive themselves in relation to one another, to time, and to place. Themes of migration, belonging, identity, memory, and overlooked forms of knowledge emerge from both personal and global perspectives. In many of her works, gesture is an everyday visual language that transcends words and grasps at meaning. Some pieces sample sound, gesture, or snippets of conversation, using multisensory immersion to shape space. Others explore fluidity and motion as rebellions against fixity, moving toward connection and boundlessness.

Hemali has an MA in Cinematography from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a Fine Art Graduate of Wits School of Art.She has exhibited internationally, from Johannesburg to Rome, San Francisco, and Leipzig; and has works held in public and private collections, including Centro Luigi di Sarro and the Jack Ginsberg Collection.