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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Intraparadox, Interview with Jan Van Der Merwe. Transient Matter. PAM.14 June 2024.

The simple philosophy that coalesced Doctor Jan van der Merwe’s teaching methodology for more than three decades at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Faculty of Arts and Design, encouraged artists to work from their original vision, to speak from the heart and not to be swayed by trends or what the art world deemed popular. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Jan Van Der Merwe. Transient Matter. PAM.14 June 2024.

19 August, 202421 November, 2024 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Intraparadox: Interview with Lebohang Kganye

On the 30 August 2018 at the Pretoria Art Museum I had the privilege of interviewing Lebohang Khanye on her solo exhibition Mohlokomedi wa Torai. The body of work that she has produced for this project gives two matriarchical perspective of her family narratives from where Ke Sa Le Teng her SASOL New Signatures winning video installation left of… Read More Intraparadox: Interview with Lebohang Kganye

01 October, 201802 October, 2018 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Mohlokomedi wa Tora

Mohlokomedi wa Tora »Lebohang Kganye, SASOL New Signatures 2017 overall winner’s exhibition is up at the Pretoria Art Museum. Her 2017 winning work was groundbreaking in terms of the animation approach she used to make the video installation in telling her family’s journey to Johannesburg. The pop-up book animation effect was pervasive in twofold. While… Read More Mohlokomedi wa Tora

28 August, 201805 November, 2023 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Intraparadox: Zyman Amien’s “Real” lives and “Ordinary” objects

» Zyma Amien’s solo exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum, ‘Real’ lives and “Ordinary” objects: Partisan art-making strategies with garment workers of the Western Cape – Continuation is part of the SASOL New Signatures Art Competition’s previous winner for 2016 continues the journey from where the winning work Paying Homage left off. The exhibition is… Read More Intraparadox: Zyman Amien’s “Real” lives and “Ordinary” objects

05 September, 201708 October, 2017 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox