Through her work, Mohlabi captures dance not only as physical movement but as embodied outward presentation, distinctive speech, and the customised claiming of space—key elements she interprets as deliberate acts of identity-making. Working with tactile texture, fluid silhouettes, hand-written text, and a bold colour language, she explores how Black women continually shape, affirm, and perform their identities through intentional stylistic and spatial choices.
Born and bred in Limpopo, she grew up watching her grandmother skillfully weave Xitsonga traditional skirts by hand using yarn—a childhood memory that sparked her enduring curiosity about yarn as a medium. She began working with textile-based processes in 2023 and has since developed a growing exhibition profile.
Mohlabi is a Rele Arts Foundation Young Contemporaries 2025 resident (Ekiti State, Nigeria) and a finalist in the Ellis House Art Building 2nd Annual Art Competition. Her work has been exhibited at Constitutional Hill Women’s Jail, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Ellis House Art Building, August House, Mamakashaka’s Meji Meji Pop-Up, V&A Waterfront Artist Alliance Virtual Gallery, BoConcepts Africa, and the Obafemi Awolowo Civic Centre with Rele Gallery. She is currently part of News of Spring at Neighbarhood, Johannesburg (2025).
Group exhibition Becoming, presented in 2025 at Rele Arts Foundation, Obafemi Awolowo Civic Centre, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
Group exhibition Neighbourhoods: Where Stories Find Home, presented in 2025 at V&A Waterfront Artist Alliance Virtual Gallery.
Group exhibition Art Meets Fashion, presented in 2025 at BoConcept South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Group exhibition Meji Meji Pop Up, presented in 2025 at Mamakashaka & Friends, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Group exhibition Salon Vanguard, presented in 2025 at August House, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Group Exhibition The Myth of a Woman, hosted in 2025 at Ellis House Art Building, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Group exhibition Boundless, presented in 2024 at Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Workshop/Project Yarn x Coding Workshop, presented in 2023 at Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Group exhibition Rites of Passage, presented in 2023 at Constitutional Hill Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Rele Arts Foundation Young Contemporaries Residency Program
