THE work of the young members of the MOCAA Art Club (MAC), from areas including Bonteheuwel, Delft, Khayelitsha, Philippi, Mitchell’s Plain and Nyanga, is on exhibition at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA).
The MAC is a BMW Centre for Art Education programme for teenagers from the diverse localities of Cape Town.
This year brought 16 members from various areas together, and using their collective zeal for art-making to engender criticality and visual literacy, they explored a myriad of contemporary artistic practices in a series of technical and conceptual workshops.
For five months, members gathered every second Saturday to participate in sessions intended to observe, reflect, discuss, make and write.
The year’s theme, “identity in space”, served as a conceptual framework for examining personal experiences and how…