Lerato Mmathapelo Thato Shadi is a South African-born visual artist, known for performance art and installation art. Her practice centres on the body in space, often using her own body to examine how knowledge systems and social structures shape identity and belonging. Working across performance, installation, video, drawing, and text, she uses time, labour, language, land, and the body as both material and subject. Her work often employs repetitive, process-based methods—including weaving, crochet and knitting, text, and moving image—to explore relationships between bodies and land, engaging themes such as land dispossession, institutional power, historical erasure, ancestry, and self-determination. She lives in Berlin.