Provenance
Acquired from Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg in 2011;
The Saatchi Collection.

Exhibited
London, Saatchi Gallery, Out Of Focus: Photography, 2012
London, Saatchi Gallery, Dead: A Celebration Of Mortality, 2015
London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea II: New Art From Africa And Latin America, 2015

Literature
Saatchi Gallery, 'Pangaea II: New Art From Africa And Latin America', 2015, pg.150

Saleroom notices

Subotzky set out to make a photographic portrait of the small, post-apartheid town of Beaufort West that would address marginalization and incarceration, two facets of the violence wracking the country. In the best tradition of the extended photo essay Subotzky gives us a balanced picture of the place and its people, the drunks, prostitutes and prisoners at the bottom of the heap; the grim-faced whites holding onto their privileges at the top. This emotionally wrenching photograph of a dazed young girl with the words 'Fuck Me' written on her forehead was the idea of a joke, the photographer tells us, of her drunken parents. It is a depressing reminder that the ghosts of apartheid have yet to be laid to rest.

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- African Modern & Contemporary Art

Mikhael Subotzky(South African, born 1981)'Fuck Me', Toekomsrus, Beaufort West, 2007 image size: 128.7 x 106 cm; sheet size: 147.7 x 126 cm

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'Fuck Me', Toekomsrus, Beaufort West, 2007 image size: 128.7 x 106 cm; sheet size: 147.7 x 126 cm