A bumper edition of the weekly round-up of South Africa’s creative community and projects by Between 10and5 focuses on several artists/designers from Cape Town.
Soft Walls, by Sydelle Willow Smith
As the recipient of the Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography, Sydelle Willow Smith began developing a body of work titled Soft Walls. The series of images seeks to deal with the relationships between migrated African nationals and South Africans; revealing the subtle ways in which individuals make sense of their experiences. To challenge the dominant perceptions wherein prejudices towards “foreign” Africans still exist, Willow Smith has sought to portray a different reality – one in which the perceived walls between migrants and locals have been broken down through the unlikely, or unexpected, bonds they have formed.
This work depicts fragments of the lives of young parents and friends from multinational backgrounds who have come to settle in new spaces – the suburbs of Cape Town such as Maitland and Claremont and the outskirts such as Strand and Grabouw.
Read the full story in the Mail & Guardian Friday section this week.
