Public Intimacy - Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa

Public Intimacy - Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South AfricaPublic Intimacy brings together 25 artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history. The book presents a critical sensibility that existed but was mostly overlooked during apartheid, and which is now shared by many artists and writers of a new generation the expression of the poetics and politics of the "ordinary act." Public Intimacyincludes works by Ian Berry, Chimurenga, Ernest Cole,

“but being this ain’t a particularly beautiful time

During this time

•Look at horizon lines in photographs and blocks of colour and try to link them together to create a new narrative

His working methodology considers social commentary

we find that visual stimulation generally holds the key to success of a message

He died in poverty

“I dream

focused on Michelangelo's Pietà

Nor is it about paintings being made in a garage

the postcards become discrete fragments of an unseen whole

and coincidence mistaken as sign

Guy Tillim