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These allegorical paintings play
with two simple visual ideas, the wall and color contrast, to explore
themes relating to race and class. I chose red and white to differentiate
between the two tribes who inhabit these walled environments, and deliberately
removed any other cultural indicators such as costume, jewelry or hair.
Although I was certainly thinking of specific historical instances of
apartheid, of physical and metaphorical wall-building, I also wanted to
use colors and situations that could stand in for the multiple ways that
those in power continue to exploit perceived difference. |
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