Chloë Hugo-Hamman is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Cape Town. She works across drawing, textiles, and sculpture. Her practice explores how systems of classification within mental health shape understandings of the body through textiles and clothing. Working with soft materials and fabric scraps, she creates tactile works that sit between garment, object, and body.
Through slow, repetitive processes of hand-stitching, layering, mending, and stuffing she investigates ideas of vulnerability, protection, discomfort, and transformation, considering the relationship between internal psychological experience and the social structures that influence it.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town.
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Chloë Hugo-Hamman (*1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work explores the tensions between internal landscapes and external systems — tracing how lived experiences of neurodivergence are shaped by and push back against societal norms. Rather than framing these experiences through a lens of pathology, she reimagines them as portals to more livable, imaginative futures. Through dream-like worlds, she layers texture, line, and colour using sewing, drawing, collage, sculpture, video and installation.
She has exhibited in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Stockholm, including at Whatiftheworld Gallery and Bubblegum Gallery. Chloë holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town (UCT), a Master’s in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from UCT.
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