Meleko Mokgosi
Laura van Straaten, Meleko Mokgosi Wants You to See the Politics of Everyday Life

October 2019
New York Times

'Meleko Mokgosi Wants You to See the Politics of Everyday Life: The artist’s work is steeped in theory and history. He hopes it makes viewers see outside themselves' writes Laura van Straaten

Frieze, 28 February 2023

Meleko Mokgosi Challenges Tropes of Mastery: Xenia Benivolski reviews 'Imaging Imaginations' at York University, stating,'Though Mokgosi acknowledges a Foucauldian framework in which knowledge-production is dominated by whiteness, his approach is also psychoanalytical: within it, repressed elements inevitably surface'.

Artforum, June 2018

'The contradictions at the heart of democratic endeavors—between individual and society, selfhood and otherness, scale and intimacy, history and anecdote—are precisely what animate Mokgosi’s paintings, giving them a complexity that refuses and rewards in turn' observes Andrea Gyorody, regarding Bread, Butter, and Power installed at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles 

CAA Reviews, February 2018

'It is refreshingly difficult to decipher fact from fiction in Mokgosi’s tableaux or to know where his intentions end and the viewers’ interpretations start. A full appreciation of the work is gained only through multiple viewings and tangential research, as the content of the chapters will undoubtedly expand and transform each time they are read' writes Heather Layton on Meleko Mokgosi: Pax Kaffraria at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center 

Rochester City Newspaper, February 2017

Contested territory: 'Mokgosi's monumental project, Pax Kaffraria, tackles how ideas of national identity and measurements of success are rooted in colonial influence' writes Rebecca Rafferty

Mail & Guardian, January 2016

'The quiet violence of fading to white': Kwanele Sosibo reviews Meleko Mokgosi's Comrades

Comrades, 2016

'Mokgosi feeds the history of southern Africa back into the system of representations that pictured it on first a European, then a global scale – a system that, as we shall see, includes not only images but also words – such that the very media by which conquest and injustice were represented get reconceived', writes Jason Farago

 

Nine Weeks, October 2015
'A sequece of events': Meleko Mokgosi discusses the historical, aesthetic and conceptual links of his work with Hansi Momodu-Gordon

Mail & Guardian, June 2014

'An interrogation of post-colonial history': Medeine Tribinevicius speaks to Meleko Mokgosi about his Pax Kaffraria series

Africa is a Country, April 2014

Emily Wood interviews Meleko Mokgosi

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