Citizenship

CCAC #: 0351
Artwork title: Citizenship
Artist(s): Azaria Mbatha
Year made: 1996
Artwork type: Paper
Medium: Linocut on paper
Framed dimensions (in mm): 328 x 480
Artwork series: Images of Human Rights print portfolio
Source: A portfolio was given to Judge Albie Sachs when he opened the exhibition of the "Images of Human Rights " portfolio at the Durban Art Gallery on 10th December (International Human Rights Day) 1997.
Year acquired: 1997
Installation type: Movable artwork
Current location: On private display
Signage:

For the artist, citizenship is the formal acknowledgment that we are all one, connected both to each other and to the land. We may deprive people of their citizenship if we exclude them from this global community by creating divisions and denying basic human rights. The artist’s image is filled with symbolic representations of the rights that, together, we all have the responsibility to work to respect and protect.

Constitutional links: No citizen may be deprived of citizenship (section 20)

CCAC 430530

Photographer: Ben Law-Viljoen
Photo copyright: CCT

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