Popihuise - Vuyo Mabheka portraits These are the terms of

These are the terms of a cognitive dissonance that turns everyone’s life into a shaky project in perennial start-up phase

from how they live and why they are endangered to what is being done about it

an extensively illustrated catalogue

while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background

Popihuise - Vuyo Mabheka portraits These are the terms ofThe Afrikaans word pophuis refers to a dollhouse game familiar to children. Vuyo Mabheka builds the Popihuise series based on this game, using cutouts from rare childhood photos of himself. He creates interiors and scenes where he appears, sometimes accompanied by imaginary friends represented by people from his community whom he has secretly photographed, and sometimes in the presence of a fantasised and faceless father figure. The series features a