Intraparadox, Interview with Thomas Masingi. Monna Ke Nku. The Viewing Room, Brooklyn Circle. 02 May 2025


[I]n May this year, a few days before the closure of Monna Ke Nku Group Exhibition, which had been on show at The Viewing Room Gallery, Brooklyn Circle, I had the opportunity to sit down with its curator, Thomas Masingi. The exhibition was significant for two reasons. While on the one hand it brought together artists whose practice spanned different art media and career spans, on the other hand, it sought to provide a lens to converse about masculinity, particularly in the light of the expectations that men should not display their emotions.… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Thomas Masingi. Monna Ke Nku. The Viewing Room, Brooklyn Circle. 02 May 2025

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.… Read More Intraparadox, Lerato Motaung, a hexagonical experience

Intrabyteparadox: interview with Lebohang Kganye


» Lebohang Kganye is the overall winner of SASOL New Signatures Art Competition 2017.  Her video installation ‘Ke Sa Le Teng’ is meticulously done. Taking its cure from pop up book construction and erecting a visual discourse from family photographs it weaves a narrative around the journey that artist’s family traversed from the rural to… Read More Intrabyteparadox: interview with Lebohang Kganye

Pule Diphare and the New Consciousness


f one approaches Fall of the Tomb looking for solutions as to where our society should be headed as far as social cohesion is concerned one will fail to encounter any whatsoever. Fall of the Tomb is a provocative work that seeks to re-center sensitive issues of identity and space domination in an evolving society back on the pedestal of discussion and reassertion. What the viewer will take with them is the questioning of how we are continuing our historical narrative and the dangers that impede on our progress when we do not consider the danger of poor historical narrative as a result of removal of past historical memories embodied in artifacts such as memorial sculptures.… Read More Pule Diphare and the New Consciousness