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Penny Siopis

Untitled (a creature called Pinky Pinky....)

Untitled (a creature called Pinky Pinky....)

R 15,500.00 ZAR
R 15,500.00 ZAR
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Title: Untitled (a creature called Pinky Pinky....)
Medium: Two colour lithograph combined with relief print
Size: 75.4 x 106 cm
Edition size: 25

In the Pinky Pinky series of hand printed lithographs Penny Siopis explores the psychological and mythical terrain of South African teenage girls. Pinky Pinky is a ''mythical" figure that makes himself known to prepubescent and pubescent girls in the largely Black townships and schools of South Africa. He tends to be an urban creature but has put in an appearance in rural areas.

Pinky Pinky haunts toilets, mostly public toilets, and places where teenage girls find themselves alone. He molests girls and has been accused of rape. Pinky Pinky is a very real figure for many girls and embodies the fears and anxieties that girl's face as their bodies develop and their social standing changes. He can also be seen as a figure that has grown out of the neurosis that can develop in a society that experiences such upheaval and inequality as is found in South Africa. A country in which rape and the abuse of women and children are extremely high. Pinky Pinky plays a game of hide and seek, taking advantage of adolescent angst made all the more complex by growing up in a society wracked by violence and uncertainty. Pinky Pinky is a figure that does not get discussed much by adults and is virtually unknown of in white society and yet he permeates the reality of many South Africans.


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