Tag: Contemporary Art in South Africa

Intraparadox, Interview with Thabo Treasure Mofokeng. Still Standing. 4 Sep 2025.


[A] common thread that connects Thabo Treasure Mofokeng’s works, this year’s Runner-up winner for the SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition, as far as this art competition is concerned as a contemporary showcase of the visual arts, is that his work is the recognition of our inner selves as something akin to profoundness beyond limitations.… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Thabo Treasure Mofokeng. Still Standing. 4 Sep 2025.

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Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, Advent of Autogo[gy]-logy. PAM 3 September 2025.


[The] genesis of Augury after Autogogues, Miné Kleynhans’s solo exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum started right after the end SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2024 opening ceremony when she was on flight to Bloemfontein. In this podcast, recorded on the morning of 03 September a few hours before this year’s overall winner, runner-up and merit award winners were announced, I try to trace the conception of her solo exhibition and the contextual background of the body of work on show… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Miné Kleynhans, Advent of Autogo[gy]-logy. PAM 3 September 2025.

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SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025


This afternoon, five merit award winners, a runner-up up as well as the overall winner for this year’s edition of SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition have been announced through an opening ceremony presided over by Ms. Nozipho Mbatha, Group Brand Sponsorship Senior Manager for SASOL. Tammy Lee Baikie (Johannesburg), Rebecca Louise (Beck) Glass (Tshwane), Snelihle Asanda Maphumulo (Gqeberha), Vian Mervyn Roos (Pretoria) and Sarah Volker (Gqeberha) walked away with merit awards worth R 10 000.  While Thabo Treasure Mofokeng (Johannesburg) was announced as the runner-up, walking away with R 25 000, Juandré van Eck (Gqeberha) was confirmed as the overall winner for 2025.… Read More SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2025

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Intraparadox, Interview with Janine Allen and Jan Van Der Merwe, Visual Languages. SAAWK, 21 August 2025


In this podcast, I speak to the curators Janine Allen and Jan van Der Merwe ahead of the opening of their recently curated group exhibition titled Visual Languages at the Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art), Tshwane.… Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Janine Allen and Jan Van Der Merwe, Visual Languages. SAAWK, 21 August 2025

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Intraparadox, Interview with Lerato Motaung. Whispers of What Was.JHB. 31 May 2025


Unlike the previous project, ‘Traces in the Still Air’ (2024) by Lerato Motaung, wherein the he utilised tires and broken glasses as a homage to his childhoold memories and to his grandmother in particular, in ‘Whispers of What Was’ (2025) he opted to deploy granite stones and wooden sleighd to drive a meditation once more on memory albeit at this juncture to reconnect with his family’s affinity to the mining industry.
This is the latest experience. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Lerato Motaung. Whispers of What Was.JHB. 31 May 2025

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