House Villa (Special Edition)

House Villa (Special Edition)Set in an unprepossessing neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Johannesburgs sprawl, opposite an early learning centre and a Seventh Day Adventist Church, House Villa is something of an anachronism, architecturally ambitious yet small in scale A blue Johannesburg City Heritage plaque set on the wall beside the front gate confirms the buildings status as a distinctive house. This distinction is twofold: it was the home of the Italian born South African

Contained in these pages of photographs--many of them shocking--taken over 20 years

parenting and photography

and George W

and À la Recherche du Shoe Perdu

in the knowledge that their point of view may not necessarily coincide with the artist's

Theo Spencer (UK)

honest and demanding of a response

1985) graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2006

ceramics and glass

and to a great extent by

essays by Ivor Powell and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska explore Goldblatt’s work in the context of South African political and cultural history

A self-described “failed academic”