“My interest in representation has to do with power,” the artist Meleko Mokgosi has explained, “because it is undeniably clear that there is a direct correlation between power and the production and dissemination of representation.” Politics have long been central to Mokgosi’s art. He was born and raised in Botswana, and moved to the U.S. in 2003, to participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He is now an assistant professor at Yale. Mokgosi’s work challenges long-held stereotypes. In “Scripto-visual,” images paired with text from poems and theoretical essays explore everyday life in America and Africa. —E.C.

Meleko Mokgosi: Scripto-Visual
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The Current / Stowe / Art
The Current / Stowe / Art
Meleko Mokgosi, “The Social Revolution of Our Time Cannot Take Its Poetry from the Past but Only from the Poetry of the Future, VIII,” 2019. Courtesy of the Aaron Siskind Foundation.
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