Juxtaposition of photos will get people talking
Exhibit delves into perception and fear mongering, which is now made worse by social media
Reatile Moalusi sits in a bookshop on Commissioner Street in central Johannesburg. It is a typical summer’s day, which started under the cover of clouds and is dominated by the sun in the afternoon. The streets are busy but it’s quiet inside Bridge Books. Moalusi sits at a table between book shelves and a coffee station. The small selection is filled with mostly SA books by JM Coetzee, Antjie Krog and Andre Brink, and about Steve Biko, Chris Hani and Oliver Tambo. He discusses race relations: the hopes and fears, the black and white, the contrast that is so often the story of SA. His mind and his lens have been locked on the matter for quite some time, and it is also the focus of his latest collaboration with photojournalist Jacques Nelles. The first instalment of We Are cool: Consolidating Black Aspirations and White Fear exhibited at the North West University during the week of Aardklop in early October. Moalusi’s work, often conceptual, mostly examines self-representation of blac...
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