MADEYOULOOK

Biography

MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist collaborative established by Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho. Since 2009, MADEYOULOOK has drawn their works from everyday Black practices that have been either historically overlooked or deemed inconsequential, exploring popular imaginaries and their modalities for knowledge production. These works encourage a reobservation of and defamiliarisation with the everyday of urban South African life; viewers are 'made to relook' and question societal relations. The collaborative engages different approaches focused primarily on intertextual installations, gatherings, discursive programmes, research and publishing.

MADEYOULOOK has exhibited, published and hosted programmes at documenta fifteen (as Lumbung artists); Njelele Art Station, Harare, Zimbabwe; Frac des Pays de la Loire, France; KAdE, Ameersfoort, the Netherlands; Primary, Nottingham, UK; and various initiatives in South Africa. They are the 2022 fellows for visual arts, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and were nominated for the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, New School, New York (2017) and the MTN New Contemporaries Award (2012).