Description
Set before the iconic Orlando Towers, Soweto Towers & A Radio is a meditation on memory, sound, and generational presence. The towering murals, painted histories wrapped around industrial structures, stand as monuments to community, resilience, and cultural pride. In the foreground, a dignified elder figure, adorned in exuberant, layered patterns, holds a vintage radio close to the body like an archive. The radio becomes a symbol of storytelling—of jazz drifting through township streets, of news, of protest, of Sunday afternoons. The goats grazing quietly around her ground the scene in everyday life, while the fashion speaks to movement between eras, between rural and urban, past and present. This work reflects on Soweto as both birthplace of struggle and cradle of creativity, where sound, style, and survival are woven inseparably together.
