Thebeautifulonesarehere

Print, collage on photograph
40.9 X 54,6 cm
(original size: 29,7 x 42 cm)
2014

The four collages of the series Thebeautifulonesarehereare made from photos I took of various spaces in Johannesburg, the city and surrounding areas. Barbershops, inner-city schools, fences, abandoned buildings, the morgue, caskets, portraits of fashion, queers, and self portraits. I worked in layers. I drew portraits on paper of humans with animal-like features, horns, ears and trunks. I then added objects relating to science fiction or technology, sunglass like, futuristic frames. In each image I tried to make reference to urban cultural norms, body piercing, robotics, jewellery.The second layer involved cutting the photographs and creating the collage, I like to work with images or spaces that I can control, structure and deconstruct. I chose a colour closer to gold referencing the history of Africa, The looting of wealth and identity and the reclaiming of that wealth and identity in the future.The idea behind the imagery was also to focus less on the body’s biology and more on creating new identities, neither masculine nor feminine.
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