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Video still of Driefontein Mine with Graves, Mpumalanga, 2012, courtesy Santu Mofokeng; Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg, © Santu Mofokeng/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Santu Mofokeng

 

Born 1956, lives and works in Johannesburg, SA

 

„Trophy?” Commondale. Chief holding a petition that reads „access denied”, 2012

Pigment print

16 x 24 cm

31,5 x 39 cm; framed

 

Driefontein Graves, Exhumation in Progress, 2012

Pigment print

133,3 x 200 cm

138,9 x 205,6 cm; framed

 

Piet Retief Plantation where a gravesite used to be, 2012

Pigment print

133,3 x 200 cm

138,9 x 205,6 cm; framed

 

„Community or location?” Commondale Chieftancy, 2012 and

„Ranch or homestead?” Commondale Farm House, 2012

2 pigment prints, diptych

Je Each 66,6 x 100 cm

Je Each 70,6 x 104 cm; framed

 

Driefontein Graves and relocation place over yonder. Compensation for accepting relocation

is a cow for an adult’s corpse and goat or sheep for a child’s corpse, 2012

Pigment print

133,3 x 200 cm

138,9 x 205,6 cm; framed

 

Driefontein Mine expansion potentially threatening a gravesite, 2012

Pigment print

133,3 x 200 cm

138,9 x 205,6 cm; framed

 

All works Courtesy Santu Mofokeng; Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg

 

 

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