The Space welcomes Naadira Patel

Naadira Patel is an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. She currently leads studiostudioworkwork, a multidisciplinary art, research, and design studio based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The studio works with artists, feminist, LGBTQI+, and other social justice organisations producing publications, illustrations, and other published material. Naadira holds an MA in Cultural Analysis (2015) from the University of Amsterdam’s School for Cultural Analysis, and a BA in Fine Arts (2010) from the Wits School of Arts. She has previously taught at Wits University’s School of Arts, and the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. Most recently she co-led Unit18: Hyperreal Prototypes at the GSA. Her research focuses on arising from new forms of technology that shape, manipulate or augment our experiences of and our existence within the world; emerging forms of surveillance capitalism; and questions on the new world of work, with a focus on ideas of precarious labour, and productivity.