Strauss & co - 17 February 2018, Cape Town

198 Strauss & co contemporary art auction “Mohau Modisakeng’s self-portraiture is mapping a different path wherein he uses the corporality and vulnerability of his body to express the untenability of distinctions such as colonial-postcolonial / traditional-modern / male-female / image-reality / human-animal. By placing his body in close proximity with the whip, the gun, the machete, the axe and the blinkers, Modisakeng signals the list of tools of oppression is limitless; and so is the list of tools of liberation”. 1 1. Hlonipha Mokoena,‘”Isidwaba yini na?” What is that pleated leather skirt? ’ in Gerhard Mulder (ed.) (2017) Mohau Modisakeng . Cape Town: Whatiftheworld. Page 5. 71 Mohau Modisakeng SOUTH AFRICAN b1986 Untitled (Frame XXVI) edition 3 of 3 + 2AP inkjet print on Epson UltraSmooth, diasec 200 by 150cm Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist. R150 000 – 200 000 EXHIBITED Brundyn+, FNB Joburg Art Fair , Sandton Convention Centre, 27 to 29 September 2013. LITERATURE Gerhard Mulder (ed.) (2017) Mohau Modisakeng. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld. Illustrated on page 21.