Sunday, August 16, 2015

Remember Marikana - installation.

A simple installation I did today to Remember Marikana. The names of those who died are written on cotton strips and tied to a fence overlooking the sea.











Remember Marikana 16/08/2012.

Today is the 3rd commemoration of the events at Marikana. 34 miners were killed by police on this day, and another 11 people died in the period immediately before and after the 16th.

Remember Marikana I (mixed media canvas with dry point etching, paint, ink, cotton gauze and stitching, with papier mache bowl and printed photographs)


Remember Marikana II (mixed media canvas with dry point etching, paint, cotton gauze and stitching, with papier mache bowl and printed photographs)


Remember Marikana III (mixed media canvas with dry point etching, paint, cotton gauze and stitching, with papier mache bowl and printed photographs)

"The Marikana massacre is about a fundamental failure of leadership from the lowest to the highest echelons of our leadership structures, starting with the labour movements, the mining houses and our instruments of democratic administration as well as a blatant shirking of political accountability at the highest levels."
Prof.  Tinyiko Maluleke