A multimedia artist in South Africa is causing a stir with her unusual work. Bronwyn Lace merges art and science to explore the relationship between life and death. Her materials are often repurposed or recycled waste, which she painstakingly assembles into giant installations. CGTN's Yolisa Njamela takes a look.

Bronwyn Lace is a creator of some of the most fascinating and startling art work to be seen in South Africa in recent years. Lace's work has become part of a magical world where art and physics merge and structure and form decompose to offer wondrous insights into life and death.

BRONWYN LACE ARTIST "I've become fascinated with the idea of death not because it's morbid but because it's inevitable and yet it's this thing that we almost can't fathom. We can't imagine a world without us in it and I think that the motivation for art making throughout history has been to leave something behind to perpetuate particular thought and thinking and so my language is art."

Lace's creations have stirred much debate and amazement. She tells us that she's more content when working across mediums.

BRONWYN LACE ARTIST "As a visual artist I'm interested in working across disciplines and across mediums. I'm driven by a concept more than a relationship with a particular material. I'm interested in modes of thinking. I'm interested in the motivations behind why we create science as a discipline and continue to pursue knowledge."

Lace often reflects the nature of order and chaos and reveals how both work in tangent.

YOLISA NJAMELA JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA "Bronwyn Lace's art is quite unique. A majority of her work also reveals that light is never certain. Light is a central component to all of her work. She elects to work with found, recycled and repurposed elements to build her installations."

BRONWYN LACE ARTIST "I have a long-term project called The Found Bodies Collection where I was collecting from pool filters and light fittings insects and archiving them in my own studio and characterising them according to their order and species and then processing them through prints embossing their bodies into wet cotton rug paper and as this project continued and those who know me and I think love me in terms of family and friends started collecting on my behalf and I would receive these gifts from people who would say I found this beetle I found this spider I found this cockroach and so my collection grew and in the end I made 120 individual works using the found bodies collection."

Lace is currently the director for The Centre for the Less Good Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts, based in Maboneng, Johannesburg. Yolisa Njamela, CGTN, Johannesburg, South Africa.