In recent years, the term vulnerability has been popularised by social … [Read more...] about Vulnerable Possible: ‘Risk’ at A4 Arts Foundation
Nothing to see here: Meleko Mokgosi’s ‘Objects of Desire, Addendum’
Meleko Mokgosi
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
Stevenson, Johannesburg 07.09-01.11.2019 The late 1980s and early 90s were … [Read more...] about Nothing to see here: Meleko Mokgosi’s ‘Objects of Desire, Addendum’
Comfort with Unknowing: ‘Speculative Inquiry #1 (On abstraction)’
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
Michaelis Galleries 08.08-24.09.2019 Michaelis Galleries recently staged … [Read more...] about Comfort with Unknowing: ‘Speculative Inquiry #1 (On abstraction)’
Banal and Celestial: Usha Seejarim’s ‘Transgressing Power’
Usha Seejarim
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
‘It may now be said that an object becomes, or fails to become, a work of art in … [Read more...] about Banal and Celestial: Usha Seejarim’s ‘Transgressing Power’
Sacred shapes, transcendent paint: Portia Zvavahera’s ‘Talitha Cumi’
Portia Zvavahera
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
Stevenson, Joburg 18.05-12.06-2019 He took her by the hand and said to her … [Read more...] about Sacred shapes, transcendent paint: Portia Zvavahera’s ‘Talitha Cumi’
Shifting Cartography: ‘A Black Aesthetic’
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
Standard Bank Gallery 22.02-18-04.2019 The history of black artists in … [Read more...] about Shifting Cartography: ‘A Black Aesthetic’
Resisting Categories: ‘Mating Birds Vol.2’ at KZNSA
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
Lewis Nkosi’s novel Mating Birds is set in apartheid South Africa against the … [Read more...] about Resisting Categories: ‘Mating Birds Vol.2’ at KZNSA
Planted Knowledge: Uriel Orlow’s ‘Theatrum Botanicum’
Uriel Orlow
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
I am imbedded in a history of imposed silences, tortured voices, disrupted … [Read more...] about Planted Knowledge: Uriel Orlow’s ‘Theatrum Botanicum’
