Mikhael Subotzky’s artistic practice unfolds as a fragmented and critical investigation into the social, historical, and political narratives that shape contemporary South Africa. Through photography, film, video installation, and more recently collage and painting, the artist explores the politics of representation, revealing the gap between what is made visible and what remains concealed. His work is grounded in a process of deconstruction and reconfiguration of images, aimed at conveying the complexity and contradictions of contemporary experience.

Subotzky brings into focus dynamics of marginalisation and the continuities between the colonial past and the present, interrogating the structures of power that govern everyday life.

In parallel, in works developed through the “Sticky Tape Transfer” technique, the artist employs the gesture of separating and transferring pigment as a visual metaphor for broader fractures—both personal and collective. His practice, deeply rooted in his own biography and in the post-apartheid context, addresses issues of identity, whiteness, and persistent inequalities, intertwining an intimate dimension including social reflection in a body of work that consistently questions the ways in which images construct and mediate reality.