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Athi-Patra Ruga

South African 1984- 


Athi-Patra Ruga is one of the few artists working in South Africa today whose work has adopted the trope of myth as a contemporary response to the post-Apartheid era. Ruga creates alternative identities and uses these avatars to parody and critique the existing political and social status quo. Ruga’s artistic approach of creating myths and alternate realities is in some way an attempt to view the traumas of the last 200 years of colonial history from a place of detachment – at a farsighted distance where wounds can be contemplated outside of personalized grief and subjective defensiveness.

The philosophical allure and allegorical value of utopia has been central to Ruga’s practice. His construction of a mythical universe populated by characters that he has created and depicted in his work has allowed Ruga to create an interesting space of self-reflexivity in which political, cultural, and social systems can be critiqued and parodied. Ruga has used his utopia as a lens to process the fraught history of a colonial past, to critique the present and propose a possible humanist vision for the future.

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24 lots offered      70.83% sold      ZAR 5 858 173
 

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Athi-Patra Ruga; Documentation from Athi-Patra Ruga's performance of 'The Future White Woman of Azania' in Grahamstown South Africa, 2012, Performa Obscura
19 Feb 2024
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Athi-Patra Ruga; The Intervention on the Anglo-Boer Monument by FWWOA (Future White Women of Azania)
27 Nov 2023
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Athi-Patra Ruga; Miss Azania, Exile is Waiting
7 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 485 205
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Athi-Patra Ruga; Inganya Indoda Kum? (Would more of a Man be Better?)
19 Sep 2023
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Athi-Patra Ruga; The Future White Woman of Azania II
28 Feb 2023
Sold for ZAR 211 050
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Athi-Patra Ruga; Proposed Model for Tseko Simon Nkoli Memorial
28 Feb 2023
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Athi-Patra Ruga; Night of the Long Knives IV
28 Feb 2023
Sold for ZAR 346 575
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Athi-Patra Ruga; The Intervention on the Anglo-Boer Monument by FWWOA (Future White Women of Azania)
28 Feb 2023
Sold for ZAR 23 450
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Athi-Patra Ruga; Ras Tafari Get a Job
11 Oct 2021
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Athi-Patra Ruga; The Intervention on the Anglo-Boer Monument by FWWOA (Future White Women of Azania)
27 Sep 2021
Sold for ZAR 21 105
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Athi-Patra Ruga; The Ever-Promised Erection
17 May 2021
Sold for ZAR 113 800
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Athi-Patra Ruga; A Vigil for Mayibuye
17 May 2021
Sold for ZAR 227 600
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