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Mohau Modisakeng

1986, Soweto

Mohau Modisakeng
Mohau Modisakeng
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Mohau Modisakeng uses his body to explore the influence of South Africa’s violent history on how we understand our cultural, political and social roles as human beings. Represented through film, large-scale photographic prints, installations and performance, Modisakeng’s work responds to the history of the black body within the South African context, which is inseparably intertwined with the violence of the Apartheid era and the early 1990s. His works have been shown in the South African National Gallery, Cape Town; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Saatchi Gallery, London; or at Venice Biennale 2015. Modisakeng will be part of a two-person exhibition for the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. His work is included in public collections such as the Johannesburg Art Gallery; IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Saatchi Gallery; and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

Last update 8th May, 2017