Athi-Patra Ruga is one of the few artists working in South Africa today whose work has adopted the trope of myth as a contemporary response to the post-apartheid era. Ruga creates alternative identities and uses these avatars as a way to parody and critique the existing political and social status quo. Rugas artistic approach of creating myths and alternate realities is in some way an attempt to view the traumas of the last 200 years of colonial history from a place of detachment at a farsighted distance where wounds can be contemplated outside of personalized grief and subjective defensiveness.
- Book condition: Excellent
- Softcover: 114 Pages
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 28 cm x 2 cm
- Weight: 640 g
