Nowhere 2 go
PRESENTED BY : Tusevo Landu
Medium | Acrylic, charcoal, collage on Fabriano |
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Height (cm) | 70 |
Width (cm) | 50 |
Artist | Tusevo Landu |
Year Created | 2020 |
Title: Nowhere 2
Work Description
This work was inspired by the Xenophobic Outbreak that happened last year and in the previous years in South Africa, especially in the city of Johannesburg which is the mixed bag of different identity
During the Xenophobic Violence certain Foreign nationals were attacked, killed, their jobs were looted and closed and mostly fear displaced because of fear. Foreign Nationals are scapedgoated and blamed for economic insecurity, crime, being accused for stealing jobs, women, spreading diseases and selling counterfeit goods in South Africa. Police would storm certain Foreign nationals Shops suspected of selling counterfeit goods with the goal of destroying and removing such goods from the markets. And later on the police would sell the same confiscated goods back to them
and all these are the results of what the South African government failed to do for its citizens