Curated by Subotzky Studio and Goodman Gallery

“At the heart of my work is a fixation with revealing the gap between what is presented (and idealised) and what is
hidden, coupled with a desire to pull apart and reassemble the schizophrenia of contemporary existence”.

Mikhael’s first body of photographic work, Die Vier Hoeke (The Four Corners), was an in-depth study of the South African penal system. Umjiegwana (The Outside) and Beaufort West extended this investigation to the relationship between everyday life in post-apartheid South Africa and the historical, spatial, and institutional
structures of control.

His works are found in public and private collections around the world including the MoMA, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Tate Modern and South African National Galleries (SANG), among others. This exhibition draws from his early
photographic works as well as more recent related collage and works on canvas.

Mikhael was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently based in Johannesburg.