Natalie Paneng

© Natalie Paneng Natalie Paneng is awkward, complex, and has a quirk to her expression. Residing and working in Johannesburg, South Africa and the cyber village called the Internet. Natalie Paneng is a new media artist using installation and digital magic to birth new worlds and surrealist narratives in which she performs. Natalie Paneng received her BA Honours in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand in 2018 and was awarded the Humanities Leon Gluckman Prize for the best piece of creative work.

Paneng makes use of both her self-taught digital skills and theatre background to create multidisciplinary digital art/new media art. Through her work, Paneng investigates the role of the alternative black woman within warping narratives, using herself as a medium to prompt others to explore their own internal surrealist worlds.

Through her work, she normalises this plane of existence while offering the viewer the chance to enter into her dreams, her thoughts and her digital mind- describing herself as a worldbuilder, Paneng sees her growing practice as a way to navigate and share these realities through digital artistic process. Shewill work on her project Digital Gardens in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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