Johannesburg artists turn an art-magazine archive into a counter-publication

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

ART AFRICA described how artists at Johannesburg’s August House transformed donated back issues into Kanti Senzeni, an installation and exhibition associated with Parliament of the Wild. Painting over, cutting and reworking magazine covers allowed the artists to question visibility, erasure and ownership of the historical record. The publisher’s first-person account documented an unusual local collaboration in which an archive became material for artistic dissent rather than simply a source to preserve.

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