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Keikamma After Gurnica, 2010
Carol Hofmeyr with the Keiskamma Art Project
Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 in reaction to the German bombing of a small village in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. This version uses Picasso's imagery as source material to depict the devastation caused by HIV and AIDS among the citizens of Hamburg, a small village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, where the Keiskamma River (pronounced case-kahm-ma) empties into the Indian Ocean. Despite improved access to treatment, not all of the local population can benefit, mainly due to poverty and lack of infrastructure such as road transport, food availability, and shortage of medication in the clinics. The artwork was designed and created by Carol Hofmeyr, a doctor and artist who lives in the village, assisted by members of the Keiskamma Art Project, a group of artists and craftspeople. |