It was a week of art of the portraiture bent in Johannesburg, first at the Wits Art Museum with the opening of the Andy Warhol exhibition, then at the Gallery MOMO.
There was a crush on Tuesday at the WAM as Joburg arts cognoscenti craned their necks to see the 80 or so screen prints, includingthe famed Campbell's Soup Cans.
It was a more sedate atmosphere I found myself in on Thursday evening at Gallery MOMO for an exhibition of works by US photographer and filmmaker Ayana V Jackson, who is based in South Africa.
Not long after stepping into the box-like space with its reams of glass entrance in Parkhurst, I meet Ayana, who delves into the African-American and African diaspora through the lens of a black woman.
Serious stuff, with her exhibition titled Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment. I marvel at one of the pieces, Wild in the Wind, which goes for a bit over R100,000 and is one of eight. All sold, mind you.
Ayana is wearing a fetching red-and-black-on-white printed jacket over regulation black. We decide to take a pic of her with another arts luminary, Mary Sibande, who is the artist behind the hypnotic works of her artistic alter ego, Sophie, the domestic worker draped in a Victoriana-esque indigo dress with a crisp white apron.Sibande is working on an installation to be part of a new site the art world is chattering about, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, which will open at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town in September...