MADEYOULOOK
MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist collaborative between Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho. The works of MADEYOULOOK take as their point of departure everyday black practices that have either been historically overlooked or deemed inconsequential. These works encourage a re-observation of and de-familiarisation with the everyday of urban South African life.
In reworking and interrupting how we view ordinary black lived experiences and the everyday, we are ‘made to re-look’ and question societal relations. Since 2009, the works of MADEYOULOOK have considered subjects such as models of memorialisation of histories and oral traditions, black love and urban public space, forms and hierarchies of knowledge creation and dissemination, and the socialities of land and relationships with plant life.
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Cane, J. (2024). The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South. The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art, 233, 247.
Mall, Y., North, H., West, H., Common, C., East, H., & South, H. (2022). LISTEN. LEARN. ACT.
Cane, J. Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn. The Cultures of Entanglement, 25.
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