ASHLEY WALTERS, UNTITLED

Project : FEAR

‘Your daily dose of ultra-violence,’ a term coined by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, has become a lived reality—where submission to its presence defines normalcy. In my community, survival demands adopting the guise of an instigator, navigating an anarchic landscape where hope clings to the notion that tomorrow

might be as merciful as today. Bodies scatter, seeking refuge from home invasions in an upside-down non-space. The world, like a recurring dream, appears tinted red—unforgiving and ruthless. This image forms part of a series of self-portraits, I capture fleeting moments lived in an unpredictable place I call home. The photograph was made using pinhole photography combined with physical transparencies.

Bio:

Born in 1983, in Cape Town, he completed his BAFA (2011) and an MFA (2013) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards and scholarships, including the Michaelis Prize (2011) and Tierney Fellowship Award (2013). Walters completed a creative exchange at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (2013). In 2015 he was awarded an Apexart Fellowship in New York, and an artist residency in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 2017/18. Commissioned by Magnum Foundation in collaboration with The Atlantic Philanthropies and other organisations his work has been featured widely in publications such as Laying Foundations for Change; Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities; Aperture magazine: Platform Africa, Summer 2017 edition (#227), Rencontres de Bamako: Biennale Africaine De La Photographie 10ème édition; Strange Cargo: Essays on Art and Evergreen Review. Walters has participated in numerous international exhibitions in Bamako, Netherlands, London, Germany, New York, Beijing, and South Korea and exhibited his works widely within South Africa including Norval Foundation and Iziko SANG.

INSTAGRAM : @ashleybwalters

WEBSITE : http://www.ashleywaltersstudio.com/