Reproducing Horror is a series of artworks which explore and robustly interrogate the mass media bias with which so-called “liberated post 94 South Africa” is portrayed. In this way the works of Reproducing Horror seek to probe, satirise and challenge mass media’s communication of the “democracy crisis”, exposing toxic tropes and biases, while unabashedly commenting on the state of South Africa in 2019. A key recurring theme of the New South Africa story is BETRAYAL: how heroes of the past become villains in the present. This theme is explored in Reproduing Horror by juxtaposing the sacred and the profane, the "saints" of the liberation and the sinners of democratic South Africa.

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Reproducing Horror primarily aims to probe South Africa’s general inability to overcome Anti-African behaviours, habits and biases formed in its Apartheid and colonial past. The works describe a state in which social, political and economic forces have conspired to create a feedback loop where certain “horrors” of modern South Africa have been recycled and recontextualised from the past into the present.

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The works explore modern South Africa’s state of internalized oppression (a concept in social justice, in which an oppressed group comes to use against itself the ethos and methods of its oppressor). Perhaps the characters/victims/ perpetrators have changed, but the indulgent violence (physical and metaphorical) has not subsided. The work raises questions around inherited political, social, and environmental realities.