6th Mar, 2024 18:00
20th Century & Contemporary Art
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Mohau Modisakeng (South Africa 1986-)
Passage 11
inkjet on Epson Hot Press Natural, diasec
Artwork date: 2017
Edition: from an edition of 6 + 2APs
Exhibited: Editions of this photograph were exhibited at:
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Passage’, 11 May to 9 August 2019.
WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Passage’, 13 September to 21 October 2017
Ronmandos, Amsterdam, ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Passage’, 9 September to 28 October 2017.
57th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ‘Candice Breitz + Mohau Modisakeng’, The South African Pavilion, 13 May to 26 November 2017.
Condition Report
The overall condition is very good.
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inkjet on Epson Hot Press Natural, diasec
Artwork date: 2017
Edition: from an edition of 6 + 2APs
Exhibited: Editions of this photograph were exhibited at:
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Passage’, 11 May to 9 August 2019.
WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Passage’, 13 September to 21 October 2017
Ronmandos, Amsterdam, ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Passage’, 9 September to 28 October 2017.
57th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ‘Candice Breitz + Mohau Modisakeng’, The South African Pavilion, 13 May to 26 November 2017.
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150 x 200 x 2.5 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Cape Town.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Passage (2017), was originally commissioned by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The project consists of a three-channel video projection and photographic series that offers a contemporary reflection on slavery’s dismemberment of African identity and its enduring erasure of personal histories. In Setswana, the experience of life is referred to as a ‘passage’. The Setswana word for life, botshelo, means ‘to cross over’. As such, all human beings are referred to as bafeti (‘voyagers’), a word that points to the fact that the experience of life is transient; it has a beginning and an end, as with any voyage.
This work presents one of the three characters in the series – a woman wrapped in a Basotho blanket. Positioned within the boat's curved structure, her gaze is fixed. She travels with only a single possession. She lies still, her eyes tracing the expanse of the sky above, conveying a sense of both struggle and acceptance. Gradually, a puddle forms beneath her, foreshadowing the boat's eventual submersion as it fills with water. The rhythmic movement of the water, symbolizing both vitality and peril, reflects the countless individuals who have traversed Africa's shores, whether in trade, as cargo, or as transient souls unbound by national borders.
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCCA), Cape Town; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Scheryn Art Collection, Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery; University of South Africa, Pretoria; Saatchi Gallery, London; 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville and the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art (SAFFCA), Johannesburg.
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Auction: 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 6th Mar, 2024
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