Artist Boitumelo Motau’s debut solo exhibition titled “Inserted Bodies” is now on show at the NWU Botanical Gardens Gallery.

In the OFM Art Beat Mid-Morning Magic’s Yolanda Maartens chats to Boitumelo about the exhibition and where he got his inspiration from. Boitumelo also shares a special message to other young and upcoming artists.

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Motau is the recipient award winner for The Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize which is aimed at assisting young and emerging visual artists to launch their careers. The Award provided Motau with a twelve-week studio residency at Ellis House in Johannesburg.

Inserted bodies is looking and working closely with the living and inherited history of Johannesburg. The body of work traces and draws from the city’s migrant workers history and the ways and forms that this history is carried and continued by the current bodies that live and work in the city. Motau’s interest in looking at migration as an ever-continual process that occurs across generations and time periods.

This exhibition is a collaboration between the NWU Gallery and The Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize and is currently on at the NWU Botanical Gardens Gallery until 28 October 2022.