Notes

Accompanied by original crate and a certificate of authenticity.

The proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Impilo Collection Foundation.

Impilo Foundation serves and learns from people in some of the country’s most socially and economically vulnerable communities. This foundation supports woman who have fallen victim of Gender Based Violence (GBV), women and children initiatives, dignity drives and humanity drives. Read more about this foundation: https://impilofoundation.org/

Jenny Nijenhuis is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres around interconnectedness to demonstrate the binary relationship between violence and vulnerability. Her work addresses issues of isolation, manipulation, gender and the female experience.

Nijenhuis has produced a number of installation pieces and sculptural works focused on the empowerment of women, and aimed at highlighting issues faced by women in South Africa.

Her SA’s Dirty Laundry (2016) installation highlighted South Africa’s rape crisis. Nijenhuis collected and hung 3600 used panties donated by rape survivors on washing lines in Johannesburg’s streets.

In 2019 Nijenhuis created This is South Africa, an enormous SA flag made from this underwear. Signalling distress, the flag was flown upside down outside the SA High Commission on Trafalgar Square, UK. In the same year she was keynote speaker at an event on the empowerment of women hosted by Cornell University, New York.

Nijenhuis is a finalist in the Sasol New Signatures, PPC Imaginarium and the Lovell Tranyr Art Trophy awards. She holds a BAFA (University of the Witwatersrand) and spent 20 years in communications.