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Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by Meleko Mokgosi for his ongoing project Spaces of Subjection (2020-present). Comprised of paintings and prints, this project examines the notions of space outside of the confines of figuration and perspectival representation.

Spaces of Subjection brings together the scope of historiography, human versus non-human, ancestral and indigenous histories, contours of divination, processes of socialization, discursive spaces that are constitutive of imagining (such as Black romanticism), and gaps that distinguish realism from …