Pebofatso Mokoena
Space Dot Conundrums
First Floor Gallery Harare (Harare)
Space Dot Conundrums
First Floor Gallery Harare (Harare)
Painting is the most fascinating of art mediums, partly because any painter can achieve immediate suspension of disbelief with efficacy that film directors and novelists can only aspire to. We grant to paintings the magic capacity to convince us that skin can be blue, that space can be reduced to three dimensions, that elephants can fly and that the sky can be green. The only seeming boundary to the magical capacity of canvas and paint is sharing experiences beyond the visible spectrum.
Scientifically if we looked at the night sky with the capacity to see radio waves, infrared waves, ultraviolet, x rays and gamma rays the amount of information and light received would short circuit our brains. Most of us would implode if we were to perceive Life as a totality of all experiences and all time all at once and all together. Those who catch glimpse of it often go mad. Astrophysicists and mathematicians rely on analogies and thought experiments to help us fathom the unfathomable. Intellectual trompe l'oeil.
Born with a consciousness of that impossibility we are all tasked with making our way through life sensing if not recognising that we are all partially blind. However it is within that invisibility that art exceeds science, reaching for our implicit and intuitive capacity to sense the connection to the infinite and the energy of that connection. Does Anything have to make Sense? Does Everything need to have meaning? Do we need to Agree to have Peace? Does Sense need to be spoken to be Effective. These are not the questions that Mokoena explicitly proposes, but they might as well be, like the objects populating and floating in his canvases. Space Dot Conundrums , takes us on journeys without a theoretical precondition. Every point you begin in each canvas is the right point, every path and diversion you follow is accurate because it is fathomable to you.
We are all 'space dots' facing 'conundrums' with each step we take in life sharing a space but experiencing it uniquely. Grace is the compassion for oneself and others seeking a truth on that path and marvelling at the beauty of the flawed and fragile encounter that is our brief spell on this planet
Valerie Kabov
@2023
Scientifically if we looked at the night sky with the capacity to see radio waves, infrared waves, ultraviolet, x rays and gamma rays the amount of information and light received would short circuit our brains. Most of us would implode if we were to perceive Life as a totality of all experiences and all time all at once and all together. Those who catch glimpse of it often go mad. Astrophysicists and mathematicians rely on analogies and thought experiments to help us fathom the unfathomable. Intellectual trompe l'oeil.
Born with a consciousness of that impossibility we are all tasked with making our way through life sensing if not recognising that we are all partially blind. However it is within that invisibility that art exceeds science, reaching for our implicit and intuitive capacity to sense the connection to the infinite and the energy of that connection. Does Anything have to make Sense? Does Everything need to have meaning? Do we need to Agree to have Peace? Does Sense need to be spoken to be Effective. These are not the questions that Mokoena explicitly proposes, but they might as well be, like the objects populating and floating in his canvases. Space Dot Conundrums , takes us on journeys without a theoretical precondition. Every point you begin in each canvas is the right point, every path and diversion you follow is accurate because it is fathomable to you.
We are all 'space dots' facing 'conundrums' with each step we take in life sharing a space but experiencing it uniquely. Grace is the compassion for oneself and others seeking a truth on that path and marvelling at the beauty of the flawed and fragile encounter that is our brief spell on this planet
Valerie Kabov
@2023
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