Dumile Feni - Prisoner No.2, 1968

Dumile Feni (1942-1991)
Prisoner No.2 (1968)
Pen and ink on paper / 357 x 456 mm
CCAC #0081

Donated by Albie Sachs

A theme of Feni's work is often the universal agony of man, rendered specific through his own experience of oppression in South Africa. His figures are frozen in a kind of agonised despair. The artist commented on the intent behind exhibiting his work, saying it was "to keep the conscience of the world alive to the issues at stake’.