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ROWAN SMITH
White People
Gouache on Strathmore watercolor paper
29 x 22
2012
From the Collection of Kathryn and Dan Mikesell
‘Rowan Smith takes a seemingly irreverent position in this scribbled
statement. Referencing a kind of “note-to self” diary entry, White People
sarcastically prods at the complexities of dealing with white identity,
including his own, in post-apartheid South Africa. Like all social satire,
a darker undercurrent motivates Smith’s flippant tongue-in-cheek
remarks.’
Rowan Smith was born in 1983 in Cape Town, South Africa and has
been hailed as one of the country’s ‘Bright Young Things’ by Art South
Africa, the continent’s leading art publication.
www.whatiftheworld.com/artist/rowan-smith