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Setlamorago Mashilo

Setlamorago Mashilo

Setlamorago Mashilo is a trained visual artist who lives and works in Pretoria. He graduated High School in 2005 and his development as an artist was profoundly influenced by his introduction to postmodern theory and his Sepedi upbringing. Mashilo works in various media including drawing, sculpture and printmaking. “I employ the use of 'dika le diema' (Sepedi Proverbs and Idioms) which incorporate objects, images, stories and songs inherited from my collective Sepedi upbringing. As a result, I unpack my own spiritual and psychological connections with these established systems of thought or ideologies and how they still condition our contemporary lives – the very same systems created by previous generations to secure our being and give them what we/they seek from life. What takes place in my work is a strange monologue – recited, sung – scenes and acts that are eerily fateful and transcendent, stories that resonate individually and collectively about our sense of loss, nostalgia and inherited memories and the future. My work becomes one form of me talking about how the values of our societies are deeply encoded in these stories and how that extrapolates into the communities we grow up in.” Selected Group/Solo Exhibitions 2013 PPC Young Sculptor Awards, Pretoria Artist Association 2014 Fresh Produce, Turbine Art Fair 2014 Contemporary Totem Poles (Cool Capital Biennale) 2015 Landlords & Trespassers, Turbine Art Fair 2015 Emerging Artists, Shanghai Art Fair 2015 Capital Present, Fried Contemporary 2015 The Spiritual in the Material”, Lizamore & Associates 2015 FETISH, Albany Museum 2015 When You Come Back, Art on Paper Miami 2015 New Voices, Lizamore & Associates 2016 African Equations, Lizamore & Associates 2016 Installation Art Fair, New York 2016 Tokyo International Art Fair 2016 Performing Wo/Man, North-West University Gallery 2016 Bodulo, Rotterdam International Art Fair 2016 Amandla! Reform, Debate, Redress, Oliewenhuis Art Museum 2017 Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery 2018 The Land Will Decide, solo exhibition at Everard Read Gallery 2018 Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery

× Setlamorago Mashilo is a trained visual artist who lives and works in Pretoria. He graduated High School in 2005 and his development as an artist was profoundly influenced by his introduction to postmodern theory and his Sepedi upbringing. Mashilo works in various media including drawing, sculpture and printmaking. “I employ the use of 'dika le diema' (Sepedi Proverbs and Idioms) which incorporate objects, images, stories and songs inherited from my collective Sepedi upbringing. As a result, I unpack my own spiritual and psychological connections with these established systems of thought or ideologies and how they still condition our contemporary lives – the very same systems created by previous generations to secure our being and give them what we/they seek from life. What takes place in my work is a strange monologue – recited, sung – scenes and acts that are eerily fateful and transcendent, stories that resonate individually and collectively about our sense of loss, nostalgia and inherited memories and the future. My work becomes one form of me talking about how the values of our societies are deeply encoded in these stories and how that extrapolates into the communities we grow up in.” Selected Group/Solo Exhibitions 2013 PPC Young Sculptor Awards, Pretoria Artist Association 2014 Fresh Produce, Turbine Art Fair 2014 Contemporary Totem Poles (Cool Capital Biennale) 2015 Landlords & Trespassers, Turbine Art Fair 2015 Emerging Artists, Shanghai Art Fair 2015 Capital Present, Fried Contemporary 2015 The Spiritual in the Material”, Lizamore & Associates 2015 FETISH, Albany Museum 2015 When You Come Back, Art on Paper Miami 2015 New Voices, Lizamore & Associates 2016 African Equations, Lizamore & Associates 2016 Installation Art Fair, New York 2016 Tokyo International Art Fair 2016 Performing Wo/Man, North-West University Gallery 2016 Bodulo, Rotterdam International Art Fair 2016 Amandla! Reform, Debate, Redress, Oliewenhuis Art Museum 2017 Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery 2018 The Land Will Decide, solo exhibition at Everard Read Gallery 2018 Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery

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