Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

35 21 Mohau Modisakeng SOUTH AFRICAN 1986– Untitled 2014 from an edition of 3 + 2AP ink-jet print on Epson UltraSmooth 150 by 200 cm R180 000 – 240 000 ‘In this uncertain and violent time he has given us artworks that powerfully connect with our fraught psyches and impassioned hopes. His is an art of yearning. Rather than state the obvious – the on-going grotesquerie of inequality, human indignity and cruelty, the rot of prejudice, the ruthlessness of self-interest and greed – Modisakeng has chosen to implicate us in a battle on behalf of grace.’ Ashraf Jamal. (2017) ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Occupation’, in Gerhard Mulder (ed.) Mohau Modisakeng. ,Cape Town: WHATIFTHEWORLD. Page 104.