MADEYOULOOK maps land, memory, and resistance at Hangar
9 April 2026
At Lisbon’s Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística, the South African collective MADEYOULOOK presents ‘Mafolofolo’, a resonant installation that unfolds as both archive and proposition. Curated by Margarida Mendes, the exhibition marks a significant iteration of a work first commissioned for documenta fifteen, now rearticulated within Hangar’s research-driven programme.
Emerging from years of sustained inquiry in the northern regions of South Africa, ‘Mafolofolo’ navigates cycles of dispossession and return, tracing the enduring entanglements between land, memory, and more-than-human life. Sound operates here as both medium and method, drawing on liberation songs and oral histories to evoke a layered terrain of violence, extraction, and survival.
MADEYOULOOK, the Johannesburg-based collaboration of Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho, continues its incisive engagement with overlooked Black everyday practices, reconfiguring them into forms that insist on attention and re-seeing. Their work resists closure, instead opening spaces for reflection, repair, and alternative imaginaries of relation to land.
‘Mafolofolo’ invites a slow listening, one attuned to the echoes of history and the urgencies of the present, where sound becomes a site of both mourning and possibility.
This exhibition is on view at Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística until 23 May 2026.
