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Zayaan Khan is a storyteller and multidisciplinary artist – focused on food, land and seed justice – from Woodstock, South Africa. She conveys themes like environment and indigenous rights through diverse mediums such as lino printing, cyanotype, ceramics, seed work, sound, video and writing. Zayaan explores the complexities of food systems through an interdisciplinary approach to land, grounded in a socio-political framework. Her work revolves around three key themes: "Epistemicide," which addresses the reclamation of knowledge systems in response to ecocide; "Ancient Futures," which reimagines culture and tradition through the lens of deep time, exploring our disconnection from land and financial systems; and "Deathlife," which examines grief, ritual, and memory using dreaming and death as exploratory tools. Rooted in local landscapes and biodiversity, her practice emphasises the connection between people, land and sea. Beyond her art, Zayaan teaches children food literacy, co-founded the South African Slow Food Youth Network and is developing a Seed Library as part of her PhD.
Her work aims to challenge and disrupt reliance on neoliberal consumption. Engaging in transdisciplinary practice, she operates both as a practitioner and facilitator, seamlessly navigating various fields such as environmental, political, cultural, social, traditional, educational and historical contexts.
Zayaan holds a bachelors in Landscape Technology as well as Horticulture and has a Master’s in environmental humanities at the University of Cape Town. She also received the Carec Fellows award in 2023 and recently exhibited at POOL in collaboration with Field Station at Green Point Park.