Intraparadox

Category: The Collected Musings of Mmutle Arthur Kgokong

  • Intraparadox, Zanele Montle, a pentagonal-xperience

    In the context of the Turbine Art Fair 2022, which is in its tenth year running, I reached out to Mme Zanele Montle, a contemporary artist based at August House, Johannesburg. Her work is featured in the Lizamore & Associates booth at the fair this weekend in an exhibition aptly titled Young Spirits. I’ll confess,… →

  • Intraparadox, Sello Letswalo, a hexagonical experience

    Sello Letswalo, now based in Johannesburg continues to explore steel sheet as an alternative to canvas. This correspondence occurred in the context of sequel to ‘O; Foreman, his solo exhibition that took place at Trent Art Gallery last year. Follow Intraparadox on Twitter and Facebook @mmutleak →

  • Intraparadox, Interview with Bridget Modema. May Day Group Exhibition, Ellis House JHB. 15 June 2022

    Group exhibitions parade artists of varying levels of development and excellence under the same umbrella, in turn they blur the lines between established artists and those who are in their early stages of development. This is unavoidable if we are committed to continue to tell the human story through the visual arts. →

  • OTT Paralax180522

    Unless a stranger steps on our corns and behaves as if they know us from Phelindaba, we tend to be lenient when a relationship between ourselves and those who have access to our personal data is mutually beneficial. No matter how critical we may be about it, DStv has forged a deeper relationships with us.… →

  • Intraparadox: An Interview with Maria Masha, Cyclic Harmonics

    In this edition of Intraparadox, I catch-up with the artist Maria Masha. Based in Mamelodi, Masha established WhoArt, a developmental organization which runs a project that focus on the teaching of the visual arts to youth. Our conversation touches on the moment when she starts to focus on her own art practice. She submitting work… →

  • Intraparadox, Lerato Motaung, a hexagonical experience

    Lerato Motaung’s work initiate a conversation long overdo. A conversation that acknowledges the male identity, like its counterpart, as a social construct. It is a result of nurture. His most identifiable icon, multiple eyes, speaks of an unsettled condition wherein our awareness of our identity and place in the society is continuously questioned. →

  • Intraparadox: An Interview with Patrick Rulore, Moments in Stages

    Patrick Rulore’s solo exhibition, Stage 4 Moments further explores a conversation that he initiated in 2019 when he won SASOL New Signatures Art Competition with a work that articulated the effects of load shedding in our society. →

  • Intraparadox, An Interview with Andrea du Plessis, Interplay Origins

    In this interception, I have a conversation with the artist herself following her winning of SASOL New Signatures Art Competition 2021. Our conversation traces her earlier attempts at entering the art competition, the development of her art practice and the evolution of the ideas and techniques that made Paloceae Lupantoza come into being. →