Lehlogonolo Moasabi

In his drawings and prints, Masoabi investigates the notion of thought as a basis for the origins of life. He incorporates inconceivable text forms and lines to construct figures, and his work attempts to establish a dialogue between mind, body, spirit, and technology. Lehlogonolo Masoabi was born in Kwa-Thema in 1983. He began his art education at the Funda Centre in 2003.

He later studied design and printmaking in 2004 at the Artist Proof Studios. He established himself as a professional printmaker at Artist Proof Studio, where he collaborated with many local and international artists on a wide variety of printmaking processes, specialising in intaglio, relief, and monotype. He has been practisng as an artist for eight years and has a few solo exhibitions. A noted public artwork is a large six-floor balcony drawing installation at the ABSA offices.

His work is an examination of the mysteries of order and the complexities of the essence of life form. It also involves giving homage to information and how it can be distorted over some time to take the shape of the human form in a combination of graffiti-like patterns and incomprehensible text. The mark-making of the human form is depicted in a state of integration or disintegration of energies and particles in a non-objective form.

Thoughts \Words hold power. The more you know about something, the more it can change you. I assimilate the ambiguous presence of found texts through successive processes of re-interpretation, reading, writing, printing, incision and layering. I draw attention to the labour-intensive process of
cutting relief prints, hand-cut paper, and reassembling them. Reconstructing human figures highlights the paper’s strength and frailty in embodying the notions of the human.

I convey a human body in a convergence of lines and text by repetitive text and paper mechanics. He is fascinated by the human form in its most intangible form. This is depicted by drawing human traces without showing the complete physical structure. The intention is to depict the complexity of the human form by making drawing marks that represent energies. These fragments can be looked at as moments of formations captured in time. The integration or disintegration of matter in action, or the beginning or the end of natural life that takes a new form.

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