MyWeku

Some wooden objects by 2 South African artists with a progressive take on weapons or intruments used in carrying out crime. The only other weapons of war turned into art featured here were by Goncalo Mabunda who used de-activated weapons from his native Mozambique to create art.

The 2 South Africans  Daniel Ting Chong & Jordan Metcalf describe their collaborative project as Fear.Less and the project has the following objective: “The objects are all representative of weapons/items used in acts of crime in South Africa, both by criminal and the law. The objects seek to playfully examine the place of fear and crime in South Africa context, framing our obsession with violence and the casual paranoia we all seem to suffer from. By scaling the objects and turning them into artworks, the artists aim to re-contextualise  the place these items hold in our everyday lives.”