Gallery SATORI presents Second Solo Exhibition of Thabiso Phokompe titled ‘Queen-Shaniqua’. Thabiso was born and grew up in Soweto in Johannesburg South Africa. Thabiso
Thabiso is recreating his status and sees documental surroundings in Brooklyn where he resides. He found Queen-dom in his nei... Read more
Gallery SATORI presents Second Solo Exhibition of Thabiso Phokompe titled ‘Queen-Shaniqua’. Thabiso was born and grew up in Soweto in Johannesburg South Africa. Thabiso
Thabiso is recreating his status and sees documental surroundings in Brooklyn where he resides. He found Queen-dom in his neighborhoods has powerful and beautiful ladies who hold a status of authority. However, he pick the thin body structure of the modern women is influenced to become by the media and fashion. He started sculpturing wood pieces used poses inspired by Fashion models found in magazines because they have become sacred scripture of the fashion conscious.
Thabiso exposes his 22 virgin of wood sculptures in women figures and 13 drawings at Gallery SATORI. He named those sculptures with modern familiar such as Nakisha and Shakira because they represent modern day society.
Gallery SATORI launched in June 2008 in new hub of Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Gallery SATORI’s mission is to foster work that is distinctive and challenging, both aesthetically and conceptually.
