The seeds for Faith’s works begin with a raw intimacy. Using a wide range of media intended for gallery settings, her approach is explorative and substrate appropriate, including found and rescued objects, shrine construction, painting, projection mapping, video installation, printmaking and drawings. In this way, her work is both an internal and spiritual release that speaks to the complexities of the human condition, its deviant histories and existential search.Ĭhanneling the international destinations that have been imprinted on her after two decades of interacting with urban environments as one of the most renowned and prolific muralists, she continues to examine our place in the world.

Through her work she attempts to disarm the strategies of global realpolitik, in order to advance the expression of personal truth. Shedding their shackles, the figures in this series conjure sentiments of resistance, revolution, and our individual, innate strength and ability to stand up to fascist rule and totalitarian power.” Faith XLVIIįaith XLVII is an internationally-acclaimed visual artist from South Africa who is currently based in Los Angeles.

By unleashing or freeing these dignified creatures through these images, we understand their own sense of agency, independent from human quests, ultimately expressing their own innate power. Within this discrepancy between their physical power and their subservience, they become archetypal symbols for notions of human power struggles, war, nationalism and blind loyalty to leadership. Inescapably majestic and elegant in their powerful and muscular form, horses have an inherent sense of nobility. Historically, they were the creatures men took to war, to fight and die alongside them with unrelenting loyalty.

The image of the horse carries with it the weight of nationalism and patriotism, and is associated with memorials and statues of statesmen and war “heroes”. “The imagery of a rearing horse, sometimes bridled but with reigns flying loose, signifies a powerful animal which has been subjugated by humankind, and has finally broken free.

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