We simply wanted to question how manhood or masculinity is represented in contemporary South Africa. We are still placing emphasis on storytelling but from a more personal perspective. We explore how our forefathers represented a more ‘culturally preferred gender role’, acting out what society thought and felt a man should be. This exhibition is the act of us searching for the meeting point between the experiences of our forefathers and the present – how they live through us, and how we will live through others in the future.
By way of the exhibition we question the old rules of masculinity we were taught by our forefathers, at the same time as remembering them, and figuring out what it means to be a man in the present and what that means for the future.
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Photoshoot Credits:
Model: Batsy Magwere
Photographer: Adam Kent West
Production: Karabo Makenna, Cobus Engelbrecht & Deeva Merwe
Art Direction: Karabo Makenna, Cobus Engelbrecht
Make up & Styling: Elizmari Theron & Deeva Merwe
Behind the scenes: Altus Brand
