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Meleko Mokgosi — Untitled
Meleko Mokgosi

Untitled

2021

Meleko Mokgosi's 2021 untitled canvas brings together pigment transfer, inkjet printing, and permanent marker in a compact format that rewards close attention. Measuring 61 by 45.7 centimeters, the work distills the artist's sustained inquiry into representation, collective memory, and the ideological freight embedded in imagery. The layering of transferred and printed photographic elements alongside direct mark-making in permanent marker speaks to Mokgosi's broader practice, which consistently interrogates how images circulate, accumulate meaning, and construct narratives about postcolonial subjecthood and political life. Mokgosi, a Botswana-born artist and Yale professor widely recognized for his monumental, cinema-scale painted works, here condenses that ambition into an intimate, highly considered object. The mixed-process approach is characteristic of his thinking: no single medium dominates, and the dialogue between mechanical reproduction and the handmade remains productively unresolved. The result is a work that feels simultaneously documentary and subjective, archival and alive. For collectors drawn to painting that operates at the intersection of critical theory and visual rigor, this piece offers an entry point into one of the most intellectually serious practices in contemporary art today. The work ships from New York, and buyers should note that shipping costs and any applicable fees are the responsibility of the purchaser.

Medium
Pigment transfer, inkjet, and permanent marker on canvas
Overall

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Meleko Mokgosi, Untitled, 2021

Meleko Mokgosi's 2021 untitled canvas brings together pigment transfer, inkjet printing, and permanent marker in a compact format that rewards close attention. Measuring 61 by 45.7 centimeters, the work distills the artist's sustained inquiry into representation, collective memory, and the ideological freight embedded in imagery. The layering of transferred and printed photographic elements alongside direct mark-making in permanent marker speaks to Mokgosi's broader practice, which consistently interrogates how images circulate, accumulate meaning, and construct narratives about postcolonial subjecthood and political life. Mokgosi, a Botswana-born artist and Yale professor widely recognized for his monumental, cinema-scale painted works, here condenses that ambition into an intimate, highly considered object. The mixed-process approach is characteristic of his thinking: no single medium dominates, and the dialogue between mechanical reproduction and the handmade remains productively unresolved. The result is a work that feels simultaneously documentary and subjective, archival and alive. For collectors drawn to painting that operates at the intersection of critical theory and visual rigor, this piece offers an entry point into one of the most intellectually serious practices in contemporary art today. The work ships from New York, and buyers should note that shipping costs and any applicable fees are the responsibility of the purchaser.

Medium
Pigment transfer, inkjet, and permanent marker on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 45.7 cm
Year
2021
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