Frans Moshimanyana Thoka

Artist Profile

Frans Moshimanyana Thoka
Emerging South African artist
Frans Moshimanyana Thoka (known as Frans Thoka) is an emerging contemporary South African artist. Thoka was born in 1997 in Polokwane, in the province of Limpopo. Thoka utilises blankets, notably prison blankets and Basotho blankets as both an art medium and visual iconography to foreground the realities of marginalised groups subjected to structural violence.