APARTHEID (2019)
Acrylic and Newspaper
18 in x 24 in
This painting, inspired by a prompt, confronts the fractured legacy of colonialism and apartheid through fragmented images of Paul Kruger and Cecil Rhodes - figures whose states have long stood as symbols and reminders of oppression and dominance.
By deconstructing their likeness and embedding them with a backgrop of newspaper articles, i juxtapose the permanence of their historical narratives with the impermanence of public memory.
In 2019 native student sof the Cape Town University took to the camppus in protest against the states that stood on their campus, demanding that they be removed, echoing the larger struggle over who and what deserveds to be memorized.
This work reflects ont he tension between erasure and rememberance, asking whether dismantling a momnument truly dismantles the system it represents.
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