Directed by Steve Jacobs, 2008, 120 min.

Disgrace brings J. M. Coetzee’s post-apartheid novel to the screen. It tells the story of a South African university professor (John Malkovich) who moves to his daughter’s Eastern Cape farm when his affair with a student costs him his position.

Meleko Mokgosi Film Series
In conjunction with Bread, Butter, and Power, artist Meleko Mokgosi has selected films addressing colonialism, democracy, and liberation across the continent of Africa, themes he explores through his large-scale episodic painting cycles.

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About the Exhibition
Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale episodic painting cycle Bread, Butter, and Power forms the newest chapter in his ongoing series Democratic Intuition, which seeks to explore ideas about the many ways that democratic concepts influence our lives, loves, and relationships on macro- and micro-levels. This twenty-panel installation interrogates the theme of feminism in the context of southern Africa, and considers the consequences of dividing labor practices by gender.

Mokgosi’s approach to storytelling through the form of history painting allows us to compare what we see in the paintings to the realities of inequality and gendered labor division we know from experience. This approach to the content also inspires us to think expansively about politics, power structures, and the role of history in the creation of the current nations of southern Africa.