Millennials are hell-bent on recreating global culture in their own image.
The Instagram Exhibition "#instabition" is now a legitimate medium to exhibit art on Instagram, whether shot with Canon or iPhone, it's a trend with the potential to compete with physical art museums.
The South African #instabition has been pioneered by contemporaries of Phindile Thengeni, Mongezi Mcelu, Sizwe Mbiza and others.
KNeo Mokgopa is a multidisciplinary creative practitioner from Cape Town. Mokgapa’s work is commonly an expression of mental illness, identity politics and commentary on society. Their current #instabititon M'SHIMAN(YANA) is now showing on their Instagram gallery @bloody_kneo.
M'SHIMAN(YANA) is a neologism from the Sepedi words moshimane (boy) and ngwanyana (girl). The exhibition is a meditation on South African millennials and the duality they live with: dualities in gender, cultural identity, migration and home, and other psycho-social paradigms.
Black South African millennials’ experience of Double Consciousness is a rich and robust narrative. Millennials live acutely antagonistic, paradoxical double lives between Western and indigenous forms of social intercourse, diet, habits, language, psychic space and ethics; this dualism is compounded for gender-fluid millennials whose identities oscillate between masculinity and femininity, and safety and victimhood. - Staff Writer