17 SELF-REFLECTION
VISI’s first encounter with Puleng Mongale’s work was via her socio-political series “When The Madams Are Away, The Help Will Slay” (2016), a meditation on blackness and the remnants of a past that most prefer to gloss over. In her latest works – a series of compelling self-portraits – Puleng’s focus is on the idea of “home”: she presents herself adorned in traditional Basotho attire,
