Featured Artist - New Dispensation by Pat Sithole

Absa Gallery Jhb, 8 July - 3 August 2018

Above: Pat Sithole, Untitled 1 Right: Pat Sithole, Untitled 2 Previous page: Pat Sithole, Untitled 3

New Dispensation is an introspective and reflexive project that focuses on the social and political conditions that many South Africans are finding themselves in. It is mostly inspired by societal changes, memories and the lived experiences that various South Africans and South African communities have and use to construct and understand their daily reality.

As an emotionally charged exhibition, New Dispensation draws on sadness, pain and joy that individuals experience in their daily lives and how these emotions motivate them to continue to strive for a better life and a better tomorrow. Drawing further on Sithole’s social surroundings, personal life and experience of the transition from one political dispensation to another, this exhibition questions the notions of human endurance, emotion and position.

“Thank you to all artists for their submission to the Absa L’Atelier 2018 competition. Watch this space for the announcement of winners on 12 September 2018.”