Human

displacement

in

frame

through

art

of

David

Goldblatt

and

Kiluanji

Kia

Henda

Entitled Frameworks, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg’s latest exhibition offers a dialogue between selected works by the doyen of SA documentary fine art photographer David Goldblatt and Angolan photographer and filmmaker Kiluanji Kia Henda.

Goldblatt, who died in 2018, exhibited with the gallery for many years. The Goodman’s available archival inventory is put to intelligent curatorial use here. His documentary style was wide-ranging, from evocative cityscapes in and around his beloved Johannesburg, to enigmatic peri-urban and rural landscapes.

As with his iconic collections On the Mines and In Boksburg, Goldblatt was at his best when bringing a compassionate and humanist eye to scenes that were definitive of the identities and zeitgeists of apartheid SA. In this collection of work the scenes focus on the heartbreaking displacement and destruction caused by forced removals under the apartheid government’s Group Areas Act.