it was like the vices present, dw, used on instagram and follow up the latest calling and i'm a visual artist living and working in johannesburg. and this is my city, the, [000:00:00;00] the nelson mondale. i lived in this, the largest city in south africa. but johannesburg is now home to a thriving and died. ok. wow, look at that. when

i was growing up, i was considered a very serious profession. and this place that we in right now august, the house that has all of these content pre odds of studios, and it was completely unknown to me. the since graduating, i have made prints, making and painting my art phones. it has been rewarding to create pieces that have been featured in major exhibitions in europe and south africa. the. i'm going to introduce you to some job of items that are revolutionizing the way we see african contemporary art on this continent. it's got coming up in this episode of dw use oxy africa. we made street arches debunk much like was mural

celebrate strong african women pain to play single banning ship as this is a g paintings made from recycled materials and ancient mythology is the inspiration for scouts and 90 by the time will that be so modal but tells us how she creates an enigmatic photo collages and we will see how job a line may need help. the young photographers find their own personal subject matches. this is model name a vibrant cultural district in the industry. model name is a so to would that means place of lights and model name is the domain of the bones and much not for the bones the streets. his kansas defines a shy about his office, a boy, but the strong woman and his family encouraged him to the city and eventually create his super sized public onto x box. or you're gonna take me on

a tour of summerville. let's do it. let's go. yeah. yeah, so i'm about to show you so my work and mobile name and stuff i've done in recent years and the progression from house i doing culture them to bonds like this one. look at this scale. uh maybe. yeah. these are, these are probably the storytelling. nice or saying i'm part of the narrative that eventually pushy, and for the fact that the 2 women, acosta and so rich, you with every twos in college and tradition. and you know, you have a lot of controls. i try to paint it straight onto this. yeah. i mean straight onto we did so the pod print, pod painted. so i painted the portraits and design the background patents and then painted those, then painted the porch. it's amazing. you want to show me something else? yes. just start on the corner, the man or

i love this. hey, a piece. yeah, this is sort of a crown. so for thing i love this work. it even makes me want to grow my hair out. basically thinking about how strong the mind of a woman is. um, that's why this like measuring and just like different stories, the narrative of the background in any g, everything. i am forwarding, being a woman and being strong and i'm unable to take about it on our way to the next to it. the buttons fixed me through a new cultural precinct called jewel city. all goes sideways and that's the thing that's got to work every day. except for us advertise data, i'm down 2020 or on june. so the barnes, why did you choose street dogs overseas? i would say to be over fed visual language. for that,

i believe that it's 50 everybody odd spaces sometimes can be a bit intimidating that even though the speaking to a wide variety of people, that people can't go into the spaces which is in a way like only for they need the wow. yeah, exactly. that and all the stories that i taught within like the i relate to every day these every day people for that i page um, so i feel like people can relate to much more and um the conflicts and part of it. and also the fact that they get to see the whole process dissolves them like in the creative process. i like bought out a lot of it. yeah. i get to ask, abided to get to engage and, and they get to interact with. it's amazing. so the bones, i'm gonna have to see you a little bit later later. see you later the, the bones, materials are inspired by photographs. and johannesburg has been home to

a number of great documentary photographers in including the legendary david gold plan. the gold that spend time in the community have to close that. and he main told photographer job, allowing the meaning that many has gone on to create photographic with about people overcoming visual magic past the chapel on it gives clauses on saturday mornings at the local high school in the to cause a township 19 for 2 copies. everything like that and we need to understand like in the background, save it for and it will tell you she's at home home home. couldn't be any way we have to be pissed on. so like i said,

we're not just taking for to be taking photographs that we're creating of that mid time to like apply. busy the project, so it's only about taking photographs, but it's dealing with this problems that they faced on the database. so my main aim is to, to put on, i've the use of photography, how, how photography was used. i ended up a touring up at the times and also just to expose the young ones to photography. so i'm here to learn more about photography. i had a dream and then you just gave me those camera. and i was like, no, just pick this camera so ever since i'm on the journey, i can see a good picture. double lani isn't always in the classroom. he currently has an exhibition at the prestigious goodman gallery. this exhibition consists of photographs that he took in 2021 in the shop,

full community in the shuffle massacre took place on the 21st of march. 1960 south of johannes, that under apartheid laws. black people had the freedom of movement, restricted, and were forced to carry past books. residents marched to the police station to protest, but as far as these open fire approximately 250 people were injured and 69 died. in this project, i calibrate it with the community. oh this of us that with a 1960, how do i directly affect it by the shopping shooting? i remember the 1st time when i get to portrays, already said this options with them to improve, and that's the way then some, you know, the object that trap to them memories of the things that, for example,

this bec, that was there, the formula to find it fast, so this became and prove that the father has passed or doubled on the also photographed objects belonging to community activism. like this for the days that belonged to a woman who mobilized resistance and chavo. in the days of a project. they used to hide the documents, the meetings, and the minutes in this people. and one day the police came and turned a house upside down and but when they go to dispute, they took it and just threw that way. and that's how she she, she could save it no way. most of them, they've never spoke about this to anyone and the level that we engaged in. so to kind of especially becomes a very important part of the project and they started opening off. you know, they would share this as me, which for me it was great for them to retain themselves even to photographs. so

what it would do is that we edit them to do so i also invited them to the opening, you know, and i mean, the response was very, very positive. so, i mean, my, my life more to say was those tvs will help his job. and i am who i am because a few job, alonzo, many is a photographer and close dialogue with his chosen protagonists. the i'm now to meet an artist who use this photo is in a very different way as the thanks for having me healthy. so peaceful sources, all kinds of images from the colonial era, which even recombines to create new kinds of african narrative in this way. she is reclaiming african history. my also about identity,

the spirituality, of course, developing african things. black, what is your inspiration? so i do a lot of research and so i came across as much ology and i was just like, so interested in it and i was like, why don't i just put this in my work. so that's why i started doing a lot of cuts in case like animal collages, which just cut the case. just wanted to use my hand. basically wanted to get your hands dirty. and i just paid the. so the odds just sort of gave me that gateway to like done a little bit more about myself. so if you chose narratives with jewels upon traditions of story telling was in her family my art sort of outage in your own narrative. yeah. could you be strategically made to forget so much about on his jo choose search here. i really like this thing is actually based on the body of work that just finished quote for it was about the municipal vendors on top of

a hill that's basically the direct has us monitor. yeah. yeah. yeah. and it just showcase boy alone guess is way too. we don't know what he's waiting for, but i actually did like a short sell them on it. in the animated show tool boy, so peaceful finds the manual in a nighttime course. it's a magical was created from paper, cut out, that feels like a modern day fable. a visa. thank you so much for allowing me in c o been showing the odd. it is been an amazing day. thanks. the, i'm so excited by the solar interpretation of african odds. apparently it's odd museum has an exhibition kind of bridging the gap between contemporary effort and not an african artifact

the i and push it. and i, and the advocate us collections curious to move you think, you know, the value of a conviction like this instead of the office piece of stuff. but unity to use africa as they spot to the point. that's the reference point, and they create the suits all the search, the same creative work that has been done throughout the ages. and this work still continues. and i think that's what it offers. it offers everybody, you know, relates. i think offices the ability to point to something that shows the creativity of african people to turn in this episode of the w's archie, african. we are visiting johannes bates odyssey this is victoria yacht,

a cultural space which is strongly connected to the street life around it. visitors can walk right in and get to see studios of a number of autism is a very uh, bolcom 6. i'd like to do need to a, what is the taking place in group and the students are at a studio to see is would, that has been a hit in europe and new york, the placing focuses on disrupting colonial narratives, south africa. so placing it in your studio, i see print making, i see painting, sculptural work. what is your preferred medium painting give bit to these other mediums, for instance of this comp trust. i scale it to a nice my way excited cleaning my painting to life to live performance. oh yes i want to. so you the cow head. oh yeah. before means,

like as expressing myself in a way i used my one body and a close to my on my so to move around and express the such an idea of those ideas. if that's the 4 minutes coming from the page, there's a tendency of having so many details for the little odd to the last side. so the middle outputs, they're the ones that assist me to creative ideas or not know that media and is because to stop child performance. vito installation. so this thing i've realized recently, even though for age of things like tissue paper and gift wrapping into your leg, can you tell us a bit more about what prompted this change. these are sort of people that fuzzy in an envelope. in south africa, priest and antea potted activist. michael actually was seriously injured in

a late diploma tag in 1992. his don't have has now been is going to have the one i'm looking at the materials itself that may throw that travels a lot to know across the globe to different east and to take you didn't include. but i did see with my way could, can make a lot of sense because also my wake from the file, the blue, so beautiful. but when you come close that window seats you, it's not beautiful as id. now it's time for placing an i to do some colorful collaboration out of can to you. let's see what we can do together. i think all the pains find cycles. and that forms the face to face use of this style. it is better to love people don't know. why do you know that it's fido on didn't invention, pink? my the, it's like how to modern invention like pink lot in old doesn't. uh, it was during the time of the previous life brotherhood,

the pink and purple and light blue. oh came and actual color allowed flag placing please our style list say, now this is done. so my work, i know you as is for this. do you like uh it is clearly original. feel comfortable coming to see when everyone that's when it's done all weekend but or each other they can is it pretty need of you? oh my the allowed actually weeks are really good together. so nice. some other color. oh wow, it's nice. i like 3 of say, i know it was easy speech for loans in terms of the control. yeah, it looks like a t is that that is not the ending or follow up. so they were never and they went with it and i really don't think in

my lifetime. no, unfortunately it's not like kids, not even. but what, what do we think? what do you think for the i love it. the image is the color, the energy, the color is the bob. you know, this is me, you know, i, i think i must invite you if it be. yeah, yeah. the my time with placing has inspired me to visit keys off mile. it is a popular cultural and created this nation for many young people. it is also has to the search a gallery, and over audrey gallery, where i exhibit much of my own with the stooges. and i think it's because they symbolize so many things to me. it has all these contradictions within itself. it's this thing that kind of looks so silly, it's cheap, it used to be it, it's called p t d. and the ostrich, i kind of sometimes use it to symbolize the fact that people like to know things

that they shouldn't. so with, in violations of africa agenda based violence, which is a massive problem. yes. and australia is always trying to ignore something by pushing it said into the sand, being a problem and in south africa is a very complicated thing. our racial identity is deeply engrained in race, in violence, in oppression. and i think was in my work and was in my own, i didn't see i'm trying to find a perfect middle ground where i can feel hard against things. it's happened to us, but also be open enough to figure out what it means and imagine will to be a brown woman in south africa. and my wish fee is to fizzle. i draw the dalton a dry and bang bin, fizzle out the next stop on. i'll dw oxy africa. jenny is the johannesburg district chippy style?

this is the west coast bronze foundry. the and this is the width of artist and scope to non deep on top of the . so what i do share because i don't have the facilities in my own studio. i create and costs for my brunswick. what type of themes do you explore within the work that you do? yeah, the things that i work with are the connection between animals and humans, or how in mythology, within different civilizations, animals and humans either live alongside each other or merge into one another, some point 5 thing versus projecting. so quite a sort of broad spectrum of things, the noise thinking around the kind of binary with

a line that exists between what seemed to be opposite. so my preferred median is inks and crayons and print making. what made you decide on scouts and what is it about sculpture that attracts you to a 2 of our thinking, a very 3 dimensional way. i've kind of become bored with one medium, you know, so i move between performance photography, painting, print making because i think one of these medians onto different questions. how does scale play a role in your practice? the interesting thing about sculpture specifically is that how one encounters with it being installation or just the single sculpture a fixed how they read it, you know, so i think just as in my practice, in general i've used scale as something that either draws you in or kind of makes you a number skate a time, so it's kind of loose between those 2 feelings for me. what is it about bronze that

attracts you so much? says a historical space around how bronze has worked with a be in europe or even in africa with the old friends. the cost is i've been in, and i think for me there's something around how the material immortalize is the person being, you know, that is really amazing. there is a shiny elementary, but also adult elementary. how you use patina really helps and shift put the material dimension looks like at certain points. so i liked the facility and it's, but also how it's it's been used in different civilizations, to more to last people and animals in, in very specific ways. so nice when the cooling body comes on, not as the day goes to an end, d w's odyssey africa brings me back to the in the city. and august house,

the i've always found drawing to be a good way to process i've been inspired by that indication of all the different artists i've made, each in their own unique form of expression. i hope that this signals to old south africans that we can have a voice, no matches who we are aware. we come from

the sun back in my building and i'm about to meet up with the volumes because he's going to help me leave my permanent mark on the streets of joe. that the o box. hey, how are you? good, good jeremy. back. i thought, when does it get done? so i might as well get on this. one is a very nice spot. what i want you to teach me actually the use grapevine property. you just me, i guess, and i teach, i you said it's kind of wild. yeah. it'll just be one line of people nowadays random all comes out. okay. so basically in the restored oh

my gosh. i never thought it was this difficult. i accidentally feel like you should finish the automatic, the 2 sam. i approve of this. the bones interpretation of a lady's 20 piece of legs because that's of creativity is all about collaboration. this is indeed w's odd. see, i forgot bringing you to hand is the most vibrant. odd. see the,

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