Phillipstown

• Photographer
  Sean Metelerkamp SELECT EXHIBITIONS: 2014: See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg. 2013: Spectacle: The Music Video, Museum of the Moving Image, New York. 2013: Time and Space, Black Box, Cape Town. 2012: Land of Tomorrow, Expanded Music Project, Louisville, Kentucky. 2012: Spectacle: The Music Video, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. 2011: Autumn Show, Museum Photographic Art Gallery, Cape Town. 2011: Lumen video art and projection, Staten Island, New York. 2010: YouTube Play, Top 25 Videos, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. AWARDS: 2015: Winner of Life Framer’s 4th Edition ‘Theme 4/Open Call’. 2011: D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for Best Music Video ‘Die Antwoord - Zef Side’, London. 2010: YouTube Play, Top 25 Videos, ‘Die Antwoord - Zef Side’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York., South Africa
• Studio
  Twenty Journey

I am South African; I retain the good, the bad, the weird and the wonderful
within
my blood and I see the hope, superstition, desire, regret, persistence and
anger of
this nation. My first ten years of existence moving up and down the
beautiful
coastline of the country was under white rule.
I recognize the problematic nature of racial realities that afflict all South
Africans
and have been a part of the change, before and after. Attuned to new
experiences,
alien to the values of the dominant society I use my tools and skills to
evoke the
absurdity of life in this magnificently puzzled country.

With the recent death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and the 2014 National
Elections, South Africa began a new chapter in its history.
Myself and two other photographers went on a seven month journey to
explore
the state of South Africa twenty years into democracy.

Has Nelson Mandela’s vision of equality in a rainbow nation been
achieved?

And so, I present this photo.

Awards 2015: Winner of Life Framer’s 4th Edition ‘Theme 4/Open Call’.

2011: D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for Best Music Video ‘Die Antwoord - Zef Side’, London.

2010: YouTube Play, Top 25 Videos, ‘Die Antwoord - Zef Side’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.