1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair - New York

We no longer gonna run by WonderBuhle

𝟭𝟵 May 2022 - 𝟮𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮

The artwork titled, “We No Longer Gonna Run” (2021) is from the series Phoenix Survivors. The body of paintings from this series highlighted the inequalities during the height of the lootings that took place in Durban due to political instigation. The lootings & violence exposed the scars left by apartheid in South Africa. This culminated into a moment where particular communities like Phoenix chose to take the law into their own hands, leading to what we know as the Phoenix massacre. The racial tension between certain races was heightened where many black South Africans who occupied these suburbs & gated communities felt like they were being racially profiled as potential looters and were prevented from returning to their homes without providing evidence of where they stay.