In this series Voyiya pushes the limits of linocut with precise short gouges clustered together in masses on sheets grouped cinematically, suggesting a connection with film and sculpture, the other mediums in which the artist has worked. The series title, Black and Blue, alludes to racial violence, a theme of the artist’s work of the 1980s.
Gallery label from Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, March 23–August 14, 2011 .