Pebofatso Mokoena's practice isn’t one that's based in a moment, he says. “It's more like in situation-scapes that merge, mingle, collide, slice, become miniaturised and expand at different moments of making work.” And that making includes sometimes working in painting, drawing, collage, print, and even video, which reflects this Johannesburg-based painter-printmaker's notion that “there are inherently so many things happening even before the work is made, that influence what the work may represent”.
Pebofatso, who was raised in the East Rand, says, “I was born into an extraordinarily violent socio-political moment. Nothing about that situation was serene, but that paradigm had such a profound influence on how I saw the world in general.” Growing up, he adds, his family had a television and that was a sort of escape for…
