Tabita Rezaire

Tabita Rezaire (born 1989, France) is a French new media artist She has presented her work at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, Arebyte Gallery, London, the Athens Bienniale, MAXXI, Rome, and Artspace, Sydney. Her book is Conscience u.terre.ine.

Biography Tabita Rezaire grew up in Paris and studied economics there for her BA, at Paris Dauphine University, doing her final year at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. She travelled to London, to study fashion and ended up doing a master's degree in research in artist moving Image at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. where she began working with sound. She trained in the use of gongs.

Rezaire's video work Afro Cyber Resistance (2014) denounces the Western-centric nature of the Internet, and the form of white supremacism that is exercised through network control. It describes the Internet, like the world around it, as "exploitative, discriminatory, classist, patriarchal, racist, homophobic, coercive and manipulative". Rezaire viewed it a "a pamphlet and a call for the decolonisation of the internet." In it she showed Sugar Walls Teardown, Hoetep Blessings (both, 2016) and the Inner Fire series (2016–17), which included videos, an installation, and digitally produced self-portraits. She described the experience:

It was a beautiful experience to be given space and the means to exhibit a body of work that had animated me for years. It was very healing for myself: These works were transformational for me. In the process, I realised how disconnected I was from my body. It was hard to accept as I'm very sensual, tactile and confident in my sexuality, always dancing and moving. Yet, I discovered that I was completely disconnected from my body—I didn't know where my emotions were. I could tell stories of my hurts, but when asked, "So where do you feel this?" I didn't know. My work was also a journey of reestablishing a connection, a conversation, and also compassion with what is stored in the body, using the body as the technology that it is—to ultimately merge myself with the divine within me. MAXXI, Rome; and Artspace, Sydney. In 2026, Rezaire was one of 111 artists invited by the late curator Koyo Kouoh to be a part of the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale.

Other works Peaceful Warrior, 2015

Collaborations She works with Alicia Mersy in the artists duo Malaxa, based in Johannesburg and Tel Aviv. She is also a founding member of SENEB as well as the Johannesburg-based collective NTU, with Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Nolan Oswald Dennis. The latter group presented African plants that allowed viewers access to one's ancestors at Auto Italia in London. NTU also hosts an online platform with one access station in Seoul.