Ep. 36 Setlamorago Mashilo

There’s no point in working for “work’s sake,” Man! - Mashilo

Setlamorago Mashilo is compelled by a sense of social conscience. He incorporates proverbs and idioms in his mother tongue (Sepedi) into his multidisciplinary art practice, to translate the community’s oral histories into artistic interventions and installations.

Continuing the thread from his earlier works, Mashilo’s work centres around the consequences of dwelling, building and thinking, by articulating and interrogating narratives that resonate individually and collectively about our sense of loss, nostalgia and inherited memories. His work becomes a form of conversation about our society's values: how they are deeply encoded in our language and in objects and, ultimately, how that shapes the communities of which we are a part.

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