In the exhibition, Last Light, Josephine Grindrod takes a photograph of children playing in a landscape of personal significance as her dominant referent and uses this to explore the nature of pictorial and embodied imagination.

Situating this motif within the genre of a fête champêtre, Grindrod investigates themes of sensuality and innocence, fear and fantasy, power and play.

Shown at the University of Cape Town’s Irma Stern Museum at a time of intense social contestation, Grindrod seeks – through painting, drawing, print and installation – to expand notions of ‘encounter’, evoking an atmosphere redolent of tenderness, violence, desire and loss.

Photographer: Vanessa Cowling