Sanity Loses its Head

CCAC #: 0465
Artwork title: Sanity Loses its Head
Artist(s): Michael Meyersfeld
Year made: 2014
Artwork type: Photography
Medium: Platinum / palladium print
Framed dimensions (in mm): 65 x 84.5
Edition: 5/12
Source: Unrecorded
Year acquired: 2015
Installation type: Movable artwork
Current location: On private display
Exhibitions:
Signage:

The horrors and injustice of the apartheid system are addressed in light of the artist’s visit to Number Four, a prison block adjacent to the Constitutional Court. This staged work speaks about the madness that was apartheid.


CCAC 436746

Photographer: Unrecorded
Photo copyright: Consult with CCT curatorial team

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