Molemo Moiloa

Molemo Moiloa lives and works in Johannesburg, and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organizing. Molemo’s academic work has focused on the political subjectivities of South African youth. She is one half of the artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK, who explore everyday popular imaginaries and their modalities for knowledge production. She currently leads research at Andani.Africa, with a focus on open restitution debates and is a sessional lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of the Witwatersrand. She also works with Arts Collaboratory, the Market Photo Workshop, and the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation among others. Molemo has both a BA Fine Arts (cum laude) and MA Social Anthropology (cum laude) degree from University of the Witwatersrand. MADEYOULOOK was nominated for the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016/17 at the New School, New York. Molemo was also a Chevening Clore Fellow 2016/17, and winner of a Vita Basadi Award for 2017.

Research
Open Restitution Africa: Centering African Voices on Restitution of African heritage