Snow White, the artist’s first video, was produced for the 2001 Venice Biennale as part of the Authentic/Ex-centric exhibition of African conceptual artists. In the video, Searle’s strategy of in/visibility enacts her/our struggle for identity, always changing, hovering between appearance and erasure. As described by Liese van der Watt in the text ‘Disappearing act’: “Projected onto two screens and filmed from different angles, we see Searle kneeling in a pool of light, almost indistinguishable from the black floor and background. White flour falls from above – quietly, like the first snow – and gradually brings her body into focus, defining it and then enlarging and elaborating on that form. Eventually Searle claims her bodily form back by wiping the flour off, onto the floor and then starts noisily, ritualistically, to make dough from the flour, now wet with water that we hear dripping from above.”