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The Day Before

Zwelethu Mthethwa. The Day Before. 2000

Zwelethu Mthethwa (South African, born 1960; lives Cape Town). The Day Before. 2000. Screenprint. Sheet: 39 3/8 x 27 1/2" (100.1 x 69.9 cm). Publisher: the artist, Cape Town. Printer: the artist at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Edition: 10. Katsko Suzuki Memorial Fund, 2005. © 2011 Zwelethu Mthethwa

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This image is from a body of screenprints Mthethwa created while in residence at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He selected and cropped several images from previous photographic essays—Interiors (1995–2005), of people inside their homes at townships and informal settlements, and Mother & Child (2000), picturing expectant and new mothers—and created prints from them that exploit the expressive potential of screenprinted color.