Meleko Mokgosi Challenges Tropes of Mastery
‘Imaging Imaginations’, Meleko Mokgosi’s exhibition at the Art Gallery of York University, presents a series of four multi-panel paintings and prints forming idiosyncratic psychological clusters that feel like cinematic flashbacks, epiphanies and vignettes. Engaging the politics of the subaltern – those socio-politically excluded from structures of power – through theories of the subconscious, Mokgosi’s works evoke historical paintings that challenge tropes of mastery and subjecthood.
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