MPHO MOKGADI (b. 1988) currently based in Zurich, Switzerland, born in Pretoria, RSA.(2017) Mpho was awarded the SA Taxi Foundation Award top 5. (2017) Finalist of the Absa La Atelier Art Competition, (2017) He was Selected for the 11th Edition for The Bamako Encounters Exhibition in Mali. (2018) He had a Solo exhibition at the Swiss Ambassador’s to South Africa at the residence. Participated at the TAF 2018 Gratuate Show Turbine Hall, Johannesburg. (2018) Group Exhibition at BKHZ Gallery in Johannesburg. (2020) He was nominated for the Gabriele Basilico Prize for Architecture Photography. web
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photoSCHWEIZ 2021
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I use photography to document how the youth of southern African countries are affected by politics, economics, and social issues. While in Malawi, I was fascinated by the greater use of motorbikes as a means of transportation when compared to the proliferation of cars in South Africa. Through my conversations with local motorbike riders, I found that they preferred this mode of transportation for its relatively lower expense in a failing economy. Conversations surrounding transportation led to larger issues of poverty, mass migration to Johannesburg and other more profitable cities, and the xenophobic attacks migrants experience after leaving their villages. In this way, they uses modes of transportation as a signifier for larger themes.
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