White Like Me

"I was awarded the national prize as Standard Bank Young Artist of theYear in 2002. This afforded me the opportunity to create a new body of work that would travel the country from museum to museum for a year.

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With these works I attempted to define an often-discombobulated sense of identity, post-94, the year of the first free and fair elections.

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The works on the show were mostly flat metal and plastic wall sculptures which take, as their starting point, sampled single-frame cartoons from old‘New Yorker’, ‘Spectator’ and ‘Punch’ magazines. By inventing new texts I hoped to articulate my own ironic take on the South African social landscape.

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The comic and the tragic seem to walk hand in hand in this sad and hilarious country. In the works a patriotic limbo-land is described where the cultural disjunctures are intended to provoke."

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‍^BM