Repentance
CCAC #: | 0435 |
Artwork title: | Repentance |
Artist(s): |
Michael Meyersfeld |
Year made: | 2007 |
Artwork type: | Paper |
Medium: | Silver Gelatin print |
Framed dimensions (in mm): | 136 x 102 |
Edition: | 4/9 |
Source: | Indefinite loan |
Installation type: | Movable artwork |
Current location: | On private display |
Signage: | Staged in a cell of the Old Fort prison, this image explores white South Africans’ struggle to confront a violent past. Sleep becomes a metaphor for ignorance—an escape into forgetting. Yet awakening is inevitable. Undressed, the figure suggests shame, vulnerability, and a possible reckoning. |

Photographer: Thania Louw
Photo copyright: CCT
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NOTE: The process of photographing artworks in the CCAC is underway - we are currently working to improve image quality and display on the CMS but have included internal reference photos for identification purposes in the interim.