Bonghile Mkhize (1972- ), a young woman artist from South Africa is obviously concerned about
inequities and hardships. Distracted Lives, an etching from 1999, shows a group of people in
conversation. So often, in pursuit of jobs, husbands have to relocate far from their families in
order to support them… thus the title. In Neglect we see three sets of legs interestingly
interjected into the central terrain with the telltale empty bottle lying nearby. Both pieces
are well composed and carefully printed.
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