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.