habo Pitso was born in 1982 in the small township of Itsoseng near Lichtenburg, North West Province, South Africa. He discovered his love of art from an early age. In 2007, he decided to study Fine Art at the Tshwane University of Technology, where he obtained his B-Tech in 2010. Pitso’s work is very personal, abstract, and is mostly about social conditions in everyday life. Through metaphors, he tries to de-construct the social and personal meaning of objects. Pitso also explores the role of different forms of propaganda in society - how social conditioning affects the way we are living. This he does by juxtaposing images and objects that have functional and dysfunctional relations to each other. His minimalist approach to art is neither about nationality, cultural- or social group, but about individuality. Thabo Pitos lives and works in Pretoria.
‘All works created seek to offer an insight into humans and their relationships with mass produced objects..I’m inviting viewera to actively engage with the works and share their own experiences and interactions with objects....The blankets provide a “warmth” that consumers dress themselves with.. The blankets and the found objects comment on our social conditions and cultural brainwashing ....the objects merely become a sign status.’
