Now to South Africa's vibrant art scene. One artist is using print-making to develop an archive of her exploration of Johannesburg. The dynamic city is constantly changing, and its boundaries keep growing, as new developments emerge and older structures are revamped or destroyed. CGTN's Yolisa Njamela has more on this unique art portfolio.

Chrisel Van der Merwe works in multiple mediums. These include experimental print-making, sculpting, painting and installation. Her work often explores different ways in which energies and moments can be captured, documented and preserved. Her work is also inspired by the city of Johannesburg's memory and history, invoking a sense of the decayed surfaces which are being rejuvenated. For instance, an idea that Van der Merwe had to take pristine copper print-making plates and bury them just below the surface of the earth at some of these construction sites was born of a desire to document the city's energy.

CHRISEL VAN DER MERWE ARTIST "I would see all these construction sites and for me that became the embodiment of the flux of the city and I wanted to capture a little bit of that energy. So being a print maker while I was studying and also a painter I had this idea to take my copper plates and put it in the boot of my car as I had to drive around the city. I would stop whenever I saw a construction site and I would ask the person who's busy working there if they would mind if I can place my copper plate. Not really knowing what I would do with these plates and not knowing if I would be able to print them in the end it was quite an exciting process because I didn't have a lot of control about the image that was being produced and I would then flatten these plates and ink them up and print them and these papers these prints became like an archive of my experience, so that's basically what my work has been about in the past."

The prints made from the copper plates -- blemished and scarred by the act of rebuilding the city -- deliver an end product that is nifty and textured images, while the plates themselves become sculptures.

YOLISA NJAMELA JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA "The many construction sites around the city of Johannesburg such as this one allow van der Merve to be very experimental in her work and take a performative approach to the process of making of her art."

She says the end product is less important to her than the processes used in its conception.

CHRISEL VAN DER MERWE ARTIST "I want my work in some way to excite people. I want my work to move them in some way. It doesn't necessarily have to be the case of wow this is pretty, I want to buy it, but maybe just an experience of something new."

Van der Merwe has been selected as one of this year's recipients of the Young Female Residency Award with The Project Space -- an initiative that aims to help young African female artists make a career out of their art. Yolisa Njamela, CGTN, Johannesburg, South Africa.