What influence did the Xhosa culture play in your upbringing? For a while I spent most of my time living with my maternal grandmother, so I was very close to her. And as I grew up, I realised that I was forgetting the Xhosa language. It’s not as respected as it should be, but the [...]
Back in South Africa, Nelson Mandela was released and you no longer had to live in exile. After a year in New York, you returned to South Africa, where you started writing for newspapers and making art. What kind of art scene was there in Johannesburg at the time? The period between 1990 and 1994, [...]
Jane is considered one of the leading South African contemporary artists but she doesn’t really give interviews about her works. Jane’s cv includes Venice Biennale, in the past she’s indicated the installations are opened to interpretations and the evolving socio-political context of South Africa provides influence. Currently she teaches at Michaevalis School Of Fine Art [...]
Amanda Laird Cherry is one of South Africa’s most established designers. The acclaim she has received is as universal as it gets in South African fashion, with publications as varied as Y-Mag and Time Magazine shouting her praises. Dion Chang has regularly bought her clothes straight off the ramp. Amanda is one of a small [...]
Thomas Cowlyn is based in Durban South Africa.
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A lot of people got the idea that Sophie is a strong woman… My work is not about complaining about apartheid, or an invitation to feel sorry for me because I am black and my mothers were maids. It is about celebrating what we are as women in South Africa today and for us to [...]
Did you feel that you had somewhat exiled yourself by leaving Paris for Johannesburg? In terms of making art, Johannesberg did seem a backwater. When I came back to it after this gap of doing other things I was doing it in the context of this small South African art world. Because of the cultural [...]
A difficult issue to address is the critique of the gaze of the white male photographer in Africa. You know, it’s a truism. Many people are going to look at your work in the context of your identity. It’s intractable. Your gaze is politicised. How do you feel about that? Well, Goldblatt photographed Afrikaners … [...]
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