Welcome to Hell Park
| CCAC #: | 0492 |
| Artwork title: | Welcome to Hell Park |
| Artist(s): |
Greg Marinovich |
| Year made: | 1990 |
| Artwork type: | Photography |
| Medium: | Photograph |
| Dimensions (mm): | 460 x 600 |
| Framed dimensions (in mm): | 560 x 700 |
| Artwork series: |
Dead Zone |
| Source: | Donated by the Dippenaar Family Trust, with the artist, in 2018 |
| Year acquired: | 2018 |
| Year completed: | 1994 |
| Installation type: | Movable artwork |
| Location area: | On a travelling exhibition |
| Signage: | A space in the no-man’s-land where the war between African National Congress supporters and the Inkatha Freedom Party were waged. The poem expresses the hatred of the paternalistic racism political and economic disparities wrought by years of subjugation in South Africa. While Thokoza, a working-class settlement southeast of Johannesburg, may well be a “forgotten battlefield from a forgotten conflict” – as Marinovich proposes in a caption – his photographs of Thokoza offer unflinching witness to the painful becoming of a nation. They are a reminder of what was sacrificed by ordinary people to achieve liberation. |
| Themes: |
Photojournalism Freedom Day |
Photographer: Greg Marinovich
Photo copyright: Greg Marinovich
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.