Meleko Mokgosi || The Limitations of Allegory

via The Vilcek Foundation

The Vilcek Foundation is proud to announce that the 2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts is awarded to Meleko Mokgosi.

Meleko Mokgosi is a slow, considered painter; behind every painting he produces are hours of research, reading, and conversations with people. Mokgosi is interested in depictions of Africa and its people; he believes that the widespread misrepresentation of Africa and Africans has done a violence to the people of the continent, and through his art he attempts a representation that is fair and just. He is deeply concerned with politics, and seeks to understand and illuminate the relations of power that shape people, families, villages, regions, and nations. He was born in Botswana.