Hemali Khoosal is an artist and researcher based in Johannesburg. Her work spans across filmmaking, painting, drawing, printmaking, writing, and video installation.

Hemali’s work is often inspired by interactions with others, and by how people perceive themselves in relation to one another, to time, and to place. Themes of migration, belonging, and identity emerge from both personal and global perspectives. She is interested in overlooked forms of knowledge, and in finding common ground across seemingly disparate realities.

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.