The present edition of Intraparadox attempts to trace Bongi Bengu’s origin narrative and arrive at an understanding of her art practice. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Bongi Bengu. The Nexus. PAM 19 August 2022
The present podcast attempts to make sense of this premier art competition through Sidogi’s experience. What emerges is the important role that the art competition has played in encouraging and supporting careers of visual artists since the 1960s.… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Dr. Pfunzo Sidogi SASOL New Signatures Chairman, PAM 22 July 2022
Tshabalala is the only artists that Gallery 2 brought to the fair under the project exhibition Ever-Present Shift. In the exhibition the artist delving deeper into representation as a device. Toying with ‘the gaze’ in a dual performance art production process as both the artist and seater in her compositions. She reflects on a given identity that anchors her being in our ideological landscape. Scant nuances that edifies what a woman should be. But her portrayal of herself in this guise boldly confronts, numerously, our expectations what a woman should be and as such the submissive expectant Umfazi’s aura is crowded by that of a regal persona in the body of work comprising the exhibition. These visual expositions realised in printmaking and painting were produced in collaboration with David Krut Projects. I had the opportunity to talk to her in the afternoon of the first day of the fair and what unfolded in our conversation was a personal reflection of the artist’s past four years as she gradually moved towards developing the project that bloomed into Ever-Present Shift.… Read More Intraparadox, an interview with Mbali Tshabalala, Abstract Presence, TAF’22, 21 July
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, my reaching out to Mme Montle was not only to satisfy my curiosity in seeing her new work, but to also evolve an understanding of where she is creatively. To a small extent there was also a need to get a sense of what the Art Fair means to her as an artist. The present work represents this search.… Read More Intraparadox, Zanele Montle, a pentagonal-xperience
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 … Read More Intraparadox, Sello Letswalo, a hexagonical experience
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. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Bridget Modema. May Day Group Exhibition, Ellis House JHB. 15 June 2022
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 to the Gauteng Popup Gallery Exhibition held at Newtown Junction Mall in 2021. Amongst other vistas that our conversation splinters into, we talk about art patronage and her family, the support system she established in Mamelodi as an artist through WhoArt when she ran her developmental project and her subsequent acceptance to The Arts Accelerator Programme run by The South African Creative Industries Incubator. … Read More Intraparadox: An Interview with Maria Masha, Cyclic Harmonics
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. … Read More Intraparadox: An Interview with Patrick Rulore, Moments in Stages
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