'Jong Afrikaner - A Self Portrait'
Roelof Petrus van Wyk at Commune.1Commune1 is proud to present Roelof van Wyk’s Jong Afrikaner: A Self-Portrait.
The exhibition consists of frank and sumptuous portraits of urbanised, engaged Afrikaners who present a challenge to preconceived ideas about Afrikaner identity and values. These ‘new’ Afrikaners negotiate their lives as a minority group in South Africa. Their connection to each other—by kin, marriage, friendship or shared beliefs, preferences and tastes—suggests a cohesion very different from the forced identity of the apartheid years. Van Wyk chose his subjects—all of them known to him personally —for their often extraordinary lives that demonstrate a multi-layered and richly varied Afrikaner identity. Van Wyk's artistic practice resides in the space between art and architecture and his work has been exhibited locally and internationally.
The exhibition will coincide with the launch of the book Jong Afrikaner: A Self-Portrait, published by Fourthwall Books, with text by Stephanus Muller (translated into English and Dutch by Michiel Heyns and Riet de Jong).
28 June - 26 July













