Winged

CCAC #: 0461ab
Artwork title: Winged
Artist(s): Carina Minnaar
Year made: 2004
Artwork type: Sculpture or object
Medium: Sandblasted onto window panels
Dimensions (mm): 841 x 594
Artwork series: Images of Human Rights print portfolio – Great African Steps window application
Source: Installation commissioned by the Architectural Artworks Committee, with permission of the Human Rights Trust
Year acquired: 2004
Installation type: Integrated artwork
Current location: On public display
Signage:

The image, its layout vaguely reminiscent of a book or passport, features a tortoise, a symbol of resilience and longevity, with its shell featuring various symbols of South African life. Like the tortoise who carries her house with her, South Africans are now free from the unjust Bantustan systems and pass laws to move and reside wherever they please, as illustrated by winged huts flying over a vast landscape.
Themes: Pass laws
Bill of Rights
Human Rights Day
Sophiatown
District Six
Constitutional links: Freedom of movement and residence (section 21)
Related constitutional cases: Chisuse and Others v Director-General, Department of Home Affairs and Another (2020)
Grobler v Phillips and Others (2022)

CCAC 439988

Photographer: Staff
Photo copyright: CCT

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