My practice was profiled by Cara Snyman in the publication Positions: Contemporary Artists in South Africa, edited by Peter Anders and Matthew Krouse. The book brings together critical perspectives on contemporary art practices in South Africa, foregrounding artists engaging deeply with space, politics, and the everyday.
Snyman’s essay, Artistic Work “With” and “In” Space, situates my practice within the contexts of urban geography, spatial justice, and the politics of inequality in Johannesburg. Through a close reading of key projects, the piece examines how my work maps and challenges the logics of spatial segregation, tracing connections between artistic strategies and the lived realities of the city.
Published by Jacana Media and the Goethe Institute, Positions is held in significant collections worldwide, including the Smithsonian Institution. It reflects on the shifting cultural landscape in post-apartheid South Africa, highlighting artists whose practices respond to—and intervene in—the social and political conditions of their environments.
Snyman, Cara. ‘Artistic work “with” and “in” space: Urban geographer Ismail Farouk analyses the logics of inequality.’ In Positions: Contemporary artists in South Africa, edited by Peter Anders and Matthew Krouse, 159–172. Johannesburg: Jacana Media/ Goethe Institute, 2010.