Callan Grecia

(b 1991, South Africa. Lives and works in Durban)

Through his art; Grecia aims to pause and critically examine his own experiences of academic art. He describes it as a process of unlearning and finding new ways of relearning aspects of Western practice to facilitate new critical dialogues. Grecia reflects on the complexities of a young democracy; commenting on; in his view; a nation seemingly obsessed with consumerism; rainbow-nationalism. He also distils his lived experience as a person of colour in post-apartheid South Africa.