about

MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg based interdisciplinary artist collaborative between Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho. The works of MADEYOULOOK take as their point of departure everyday black practices that have either been historically overlooked or deemed inconsequential. These works encourage a re-observation of and de-familiarisation with the everyday of urban South African life.

In reworking and interrupting how we view ordinary black lived-experiences and the everyday, we are 'made to re-look' and question societal relations. Since 2009, the works of MADEYOULOOK have considered subjects such as models of memorialisation of histories and oral traditions, black love and urban public space, forms and hierarchies of knowledge creation and dissemination, and the socialities of land and relationships with plant life.

MADEYOULOOK engages different approaches focused primarily on intertextual installations, gatherings, discursive programmes, research and publishing. Although MADEYOULOOK’s practice is significantly directed towards a practice of socialities and relationalities outside of the gallery space, these projects occasionally culminate in exhibitions.

MADEYOULOOK has exhibited, published and hosted programmes in various forms, including as lumbung artists at documenta fifteen, with Njelele, Zimbabwe, Frac Pays de la Loire, France and KAdE, Netherlands, Primary, UK and various initiatives in South Africa. They are 2022 Fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. They have also been nominated for the Vera List Centre Prize for Art and Politics at the New School, NY in 2017 and the MTN New Contemporaries prize in 2012.

for a more detailed profile, click on the pdf