The final moments of Immanuel Sithole

This work comments on the Xenophobia attacks, specifically the death of Immanuel Sithole, and how these media images of his death influenced me as an individual. I took the images of his death that were posted in newspapers and wove a mask with them, I then took ‘selfies’ with this mask. These selfies show how media is constructing the view of the public and how they desensitise the public against traumatising images.

This mask shows me as an individual shielding myself against these images by totally embracing myself in them so they do no longer have an effect on me.