Mandlenkosi Mavengere
2020
Combining printmaking and painting, Zimbabwean born Mandlenkosi Mavengere’s artworks converse around issues of economics and migration.
With a focus on etching and linocut, Mandlenkosi creates highly textured and patterned backgrounds and imposes storytelling portraits on the foreground of his artworks being aware of both the positive and negative spaces in his compositions.
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Mavengere explores the black experience in contemporary society, looking at the socio- economic paradigm shown through the constant use of the banknote taking centre stage in his body of work.
He opens a conversation on population displacement, poverty, entrepreneurship, street hustling and focuses on the circumstantial economic system that governs the migrant population in search for income and a better life.
His works serve as a magnifying glass view into the independence of the continent, looking at Zimbabwe and South Africa questioning notions of economic freedom, corruption, high level of unemployment and a need to succeed against all odds
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