Panel Discussion 1: The profileration of the black figure in contemporary African art

This panel discussion seeks to unpack the historical view of the use of the figure in African art, locating figurative work within the long tradition of African modernisms and black modernisms. It will look to consider abstraction alongside figuration (instead of against) as a way to problematise the current proliferation of the black figure within contemporary art. Unforutnately one panelist was lost to load shedding as the conversation started.
Moderator - Nkgopoleng Moloi
Nkgopoleng Moloi is a writer and an MA student in contemporary curatorial practices at Wits University. Using archives and exhibition histories, her research explores womxn’s mobility. She attempts to understand and draw attention to factors that enhance or inhibit womxn’s freedom of movement. Writing is a tool Moloi employs to understand the world around her and to explore the things she is excited and intrigued by, particularly history, art, language and architecture.
Panelist - Vusi Nkomo
uVusi is a writer, educator, musician, media and cultural practitioner, political organizer interested in the ways in which Black people materially & culturally resist-rapture everyday forms of anti-Blackness. He is interested in the radical potentialities of Black Afrodiasporic ‘musics’, cinema, contemporary art, critical race meta-theory, and end of the world as we know it.