Young and vital artists: Motlhoki Nono

b.1998

mixed media

Mabopane-born Nono uses video, photography, and printmaking to interrogate the politics of intimacy and violence in romantic love. With an excellent academic grounding — she bagged her fine arts junior degree with five distinctions — she sees her work as contributing to decoloniality while documenting the complexities of Black love. In 2022 she became the first woman to win the Ernest Cole Award for photography.