253pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Flyleaf Publishing, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781049227115

This publication is based on the exhibition held at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town from December 2024 to November 2025.

The book brings together more than 70 contemporary artists and over 100 works that engage, challenge, and reimagine our political life. The works are organised around four themes – To belong, To protest, To care, and To be heard – inviting us not merely to observe, but to engage deeply in an effort to bridge South Africa’s historical divides.

Liese Van Der Watt is a South African art historian working between London and Cape Town. After completing a PhD in New York as a Fulbright scholar in 2002, she returned to the University of Cape Town to lecture in African art history and theory. In 2007 she relocated to London and works as a freelance writer and curator.

WE, THE PEOPLE: 30 years of art and democracy in South Africa

: van der Watt (L.)

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