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Santu Mofokeng

South African, b. 1956

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Bio

Santu Mofokeng is known for his black-and-white photographs of life in South Africa’s black communities, images he calls meditations on “existential madness—the absurdities of living.” Mofokeng first picked up a camera in the 1980s as a street …

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Notable works

Driefontein mine expansion potentially threatening a gravesite., 2012
Driefontein graves, exhumation in progress, 2012
Piet Retief plantation, where a gravesite used to be, 2012
"Community or location?" Commondale Chieftaincy. "Ranch or homestead?" Commondale Farm House., 2012
Driefontein graves and relocation place over yonder. Compensation for accepting relocation is a cow for an adult's corpse and a goat or sheep for a child's corpse., 2012

Career highlights

Solo show at a major institution

Jeu de Paume

Group show at a major institution

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and 4 more

Collected by a major institution

Tate

Reviewed by a major art publication

Artforum, and 4 more

Included in a major biennial

Venice Biennale National Pavilion, and 9 more

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