Collection: Christiaan Diedericks

His works collectively facilitate a greater appreciation of a creative endeavour, which are contemporary with the halcyon years of the 'new' South Africa. Some of the earliest works in his oevre date from the watershed year of the first democratic elections in 1994 followed by the country's adoption of a new constitution in 1996. The protection and freedoms afforded gay , bisexual and transgendered people through the prohibition of any discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation established a new legal and social 'landscape' against which Diedericks' works have not only been created, but by which they must also be evaluated and interpreted. His work confirms him not only as a speculative artist-philosopher on the diverse and complex psychosexuality of masculinity, but latterly, especially in his most recent Cold Sweat series of 2009, as a commentator on global political and social issues.