District 6

A densely composed urban streetscape rendered in bold black lines against white ground, depicting a church with prominent spire at the composition’s centre, surrounded by multi-storey buildings with varied architectural detail. Figures populate the street below, whilst diagonal hatching and linear marks suggest movement and atmosphere throughout. The etching technique creates a graphic immediacy characteristic of Boonzaier’s socially engaged practice, wherein urban environments served as subjects for artistic intervention during South Africa’s turbulent twentieth century.