Popihuise - Vuyo Mabheka housing People Painting is an artist’s

People Painting is an artist’s book made up of a collection of found images of famous personalities (from the 1920s to 2020) painting or posing in their studios

Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology

this is work that has for far too long been excluded and overlooked

Ricardo created a world of his own

unfreedom and unfathomable violence of their time as women

Popihuise - Vuyo Mabheka housing People Painting is an artist’sThe 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