Vusi Beauchamp
Thu, 23 Jan
|99 Loop Gallery
Vusi Beauchamp is a multi-talented South African artist. His contemporary mixed media painting practice acts as a socio-political critique with a distinctive and often humorous voice.


Time & Location
23 Jan 2020, 17:30 – 22 Feb 2020, 14:00
99 Loop Gallery, 99 Loop St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
About the Exhibition
Vusi Beauchamp is a multi-talented South African artist. He describes his practice as encompassing being an artist, multimedia design and art director. He currently is based in Johannesburg.
Beauchamp's contemporary mixed media painting practice acts as a socio-political critique with a distinctive and often humorous voice. His choice of media ranges from spray paint and stencils to materials such as crayons, charcoal and acrylic paint. Subversive and challenging, Beauchamp's edgy paintings are uniquely his own.
Prisoners of Waar probes the unwavering stereotype, exotification, and exploitation of black African bodies in popular media and the participation of black folks in the narrative rooted in colonial ideologies. The problematical inheritance of the stigma can be found in the celebrated artist Paul Gauguin's paintings and the now-banned publication of "Tintin in the Congo". The illustrated bodies and the narrative aim to reveal the colonial domination of black bodies and spiritual identity, the relentless…