printmaking is a way of my thinking through the architectures of administration, family life and data.
These formations are almost always invisibly traumatic and joyous.
The prints attempt to make these relations visible
prints printed by artist in collaboration with Danger Gevaar Ingozi Studio; David Krut Projects, and Chocolate Ink Studio
Statistical Weaknesses, 2018, hardground etching and handpainting, variable edition size: 10, 39cm x 39cm
They Told Us Years Ago, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Non-Revolution of The Kids, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Projector Squares, 2016, 3 colour screenprint, 35cm x 50cm
Instruments of Orbit 2016, 3 colour screenprint, 35cm x 50cm
Gardens of The Future, 2016, 3 colour screenprint, 35cm x 50cm
The Classic, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
The Random Train Station, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Crowd Control, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Trap Psychology, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Everyday People, 2016, 3 colour screenprint, 35cm x 50cm
Words the Internet Can't Handle, 2016, 3 colour screenprint, 35cm x 50cm
Infinity Rooms, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Struggles, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Another Cheap Shot at Administration, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Political Signals, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
A Million Reciepts, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
Plantations and Televisions, 2018, monoprint, 30cm x 25cm
The Elders 2016, 3 colour screenprint, 35cm x 50cm
3/4 Progress on The Edge of Play, 2019, 6-colour silkscreen on Cartiere Enrico Magnani 300gsm, 38cm x 27cm, edition of 25
“¾ Progress on the edge of play is rooted as a response to commercial lineages and traces that continue to have a profound influence on South Africa – often cutting through educational, geographical, institutional and other social-political and psycho-social environments.
The economic relationship to value, mass accumulation, cultures, and economics is a game far too often played on paper.
Numbers consistently are added, subtracted, divided and multiplied with ease – notwithstanding that these mathematical measures have fundamental and real effects on people that deal with the reverberations physically. People cannot eat numbers for breakfast and dinner.”
Pebofatso Mokoena 2019