In conversation with Monox
Artist Interview
A three-part discussion exploring artistic practice, contemporary culture, and the relationship between personal experience and creative production.
In commemoration of Men’s Mental Health Month, take a deep dive into the upcoming exhibition – Villain mode, by Monox – a mixed medium artist based in Johannesburg.
Villain Mode explores the themes of masculinity, mental health, and performativity, where identity is interrogated against the dominant norms of society. Displaying the enactments of various social personas, this exhibition serves as the symbolic representation of who we become once we remove the mask.
Monox in Villain Mode – One day only
Date: 16th June, 2026
Location: Clubhaus, 116 Greenway, Greenside
Time: 13:00 – 17:00
Clubhaus - Eye Am Woman
Exhibition Article
The Eye Am Woman exhibition, which opened on the 9th of August 2025 (Women’s Day), serves as an opening of the self to the structured gaze of society – providing an alternative, non-confirmative lens that highlights the intersectional domains of reality. Through this exhibition, we see how one comes to know themselves and how one chooses to represent themselves by means of multifaceted forms of artwork that mirror the complexities of identity formation.
This exhibition boldly demonstrates the artistic outcomes of pain, joy, happiness, power, suffering, resistance, vulnerability, and reconfiguration, established in lived experiences and perspectives – where artists reclaim their subjectivities. As a result, the exhibition interrogates the dominant constructs of womanhood.