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Press writings about exhibitions of artworks by Paul Emmanuel 2025 Judkis, M. SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART DELAYS LGBTQ PRIDE EXHIBIT , Washington Post, Washington D.C. USA, May. 2021 Ntwasa, T. ARTIST QUESTIONS OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD – USING FASHION AS THE CANVAS , TimesLive in Sunday Times Newspaper, Johannesburg, South Africa, October. 2021 Delmont, L. PAUL EMMANUEL SUBSTANCE OF SHADOWS AT UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY UNTIL 2ND OCTOBER , Lizatlancaster Guest House , Johannesburg, South Africa, September. 2021 Myburg, J. SUBSTANCE OF SHADOWS: ONTHOU SKYN SOOS LIG DEUR , Netwerk24 , Johannesburg, South Africa, September. 2021 Auslander, M. ALTERED CARBON: DRAMAS OF DETACHMENT, Moving Cube , University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, September. 2021 Ngidi, S. JUNE 16: REDEMPTION THROUGH NEGATION , Mail & Guardian , Johannesburg, South Africa, June. 2021 Delmont, L. PAUL EMMANUEL’S MEN AND MONUMENTS , Lizatlancaster Guest House , Johannesburg, South Africa, May. 2021 Khumalo, A. REVIEW: WAM EXHIBITION A GHOSTLY MEMORIAL TO MEN LOST TO WAR , Wits Vuvuzela , Johannesburg, South Africa, April. 2020 Hart, G. PAUL EMMANUEL’S MEN AND MONUMENTS: A TENDER PERSPECTIVE ON MASCULINITY AND THE MILITARY MACHINE , Bubblegumclub , Johannesburg, South Africa, March. 2020 Allara, P and Auslander, M. BETWEEN MEN AND MONUMENTS: THE ART OF PAUL EMMANUEL , Art Beyond Quarantine , Blogger, Google, California, USA, March. 2020 Auslander, M. VEIL 1954: PAUL EMMANUEL , Art Beyond Quarantine , Blogger, Google, California, USA, April. 2020 Allara, P. CARBON DAD 2017: PAUL EMMANUEL Art Beyond Quarantine , Blogger, Google, California, USA, April. 2018 Sassen, R. YOUR NAME, MY BODY in My View: The Arts at Large , online blog at WordPress.com, Automattic Inc., San Francisco, California, USA. April. 2018 Sluiter, M. THE LOST MEN PROJECT , in Fonts in Use , Fonts in Use LLC, Oakland California, USA, March. 2017 Emmanuel, P. PAUL EMMANUEL: ARTISTS AT WORK in Creative Feel magazine, DeskLink Media, Johannesburg, South Africa. April. 2017 Britz, E. PAUL EMMANUEL SE AANGRYPENDE ‘REMNANTS’ IN ROSESTAD in Volksblad , Media24, Bloemfontein, South Africa. May. 2016 McQuiad, C. MEMORIALS, ETHEREAL AND ELEGIAC, AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY in The Boston Globe , Boston Globe Media Partners LLC, Boston, USA. February. 2016 O'Rourke, J. A GHOSTLY TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I in BU Today , Boston University, Boston, USA. February. 2016 Werbe, S. 'REMNANTS' – REVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST'S SOMME EXHIBITION IN BOSTON in Centenary News: First World War 1914-1918 , Centenary Digital Ltd, London, UK. March. 2015 Stehle, R. OORBLYFSELS VAN 'ANTIMONUMENT' NOU IN VRYHEIDSPARK UITGESTAL , in Beeld , Media24, Johannesburg, South Africa, June. [PDF] 2014 Jones, J. WHY NUDES ARE A FITTING TRIBUTE TO THE SOMME'S FALLEN SOLDIERS , in The Guardian , Guardian News and Media Limited, London, August. 2014 Castro, P. THE LOST MEN, CONTRA-MEMORIAL DE PAUL EMMANUEL EN LOS CAMPOS DE BATALLA DE SOMME, in Catálogodiseño , Inversiones Diseño Medios, Colombia, Chile, August. 2014 Azzarello, N. PAUL EMMANUEL INSTALLS COUNTER-MEMORIAL ON FRANCE'S SOMME BATTLEFIELDS , in designboom , designboom magazine, Milan, Italy, August. 2014 Stehle, R. KUNS WAT WAPPER, in Beeld , Media24, Johannesburg, South Africa, July. 2014 Watterson, L. (editorial). THE LOST MEN OF FRANCE , in Classicfeel , DeskLink Media, Johannesburg, South Africa, August. 2014 Malexis, S. DIX QUESTIONS POUR UN CENTENAIRE , in Le Monde , 14-18 Les leçons d'une guerre, Les enjeux d'un centenaire, Le Monde, Paris, France, February-March. 2013 IFAS-Culture & Research. PUBLIC INSTALLATION AS PART OF THE OFFICIAL COMMEMORATION OF THE WORLD WAR ONE CENTENARY IN FRANCE , in Extra! magazine, Institut Français, Johannesburg, South Africa, December. 2013 Alhadeff, P. SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST'S WORK "THE LOST MEN FRANCE" TO REMEMBER SOLDIERS KILLED ON THE SOMME , in Centenary News online news bulletin, Centenary Digital Ltd. London, UK, December. 2013 Michel, N. AFRIQUE DU SUD: UNE EXPOSITION SUR JOHANNESBURG À LA MAISON ROUGE DE PARIS , in Jeune Afrique online news bulletin, DIFCOM, Paris, France, July. 2012 Emmanuel, P. PAUL EMMANUEL IN FRANCE , in Classic Feel magazine, Desklink Media, Johannesburg, South Africa, December 2012 Corbier. C, A LA QUÊTE DES HOMMES PERDUS in L'Est Républicain , Verdun, France, September 2012 Art Source South Africa, PAUL EMMANUEL SELECTED FOR 2012 FRENCH RESIDENCY , in South African Art Times , Global Art Information, Cape Town, South Africa, February 2011 Watermeyer, N. MORTALITY, VULNERABILITY, MUTABILITY , in Classic Feel magazine, Desklink Media, Johannesburg, South Africa, December 2011 Van Rensburg, W. SA ART HIGHLIGHTS , in South African Art Times newspaper, Global Art Information, Johannesburg, South Africa, December 2011 van Wyk A. BITES OF ART , in Life , Sunday Independent newspaper, Independent News & Media, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2011 Bester, R. MAKING A LASTING IMPACT WITH FIRST IMPRESSIONS , in Mail & Guardian , M&G Media Limited, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2011 Smith, M. LABOUR INTENSIVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FNB JOBURG ART FAIR'S FEATURED ARTIST PAUL EMMANUEL in ArtThrob , Cape Town, South Africa, September 2011 Bosman, N. MOMENTS OF CHANGE: JOBURG ART FAIR FEATURED ARTIST PAUL EMMANUEL ADDS YET ANOTHER INTRICATE LAYER TO HIS 'TRANSITIONS PROJECT' , in CityVibe , The Citizen newspaper, The Citizen, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2011 Ober, C. LIGHT FROM DARK: TWO NEW EXHIBITS AT GOYA CONTEMPORARY GALLERY HIGHLIGHT CONTRASTING VALUES , in Urbanite magazine, Tracy Ward, Baltimore, USA, September 2011 Minors, D. WITSIE IS FEATURED ARTIST AT AFRICA'S ONLY ART FAIR , in Wits Alumni magazine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2011 Myburg, J. BEKROONDE EMMANUEL SE LITOS OF ART FAIR , in Beeld newspaper, Nuus24.Com, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2010 Weaver, A. M. PAUL EMMANUEL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, WASHINGTON DC , in Art South Africa , Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa, Spring 2010 McKenna, A. PAUL EMMANUEL: TRANSITIONS: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH AFRICA in California Literary Review , California Literary Review, Carlsbad, California, USA, June 2010 Harvey, A.L. SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART in The InTowner , Intowner Publishing Corp., Washington DC, USA, June 2010 O'Sullivan, M. AT SMITHSONIAN'S AFRICAN ART MUSEUM: RITE OF PASSAGE and DRAWN PRECISELY in The Washington Post , The Washington Post Company, Washington DC, USA, May 2010 Cavenaugh, A. TRANSITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA: PAUL EMMANUEL'S 'TRANSITIONS' AT SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART in Express Night Out , The Washington Post Company, Washington DC, USA, May 2010 O'Sullivan, M. SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN ART MUSEUM'S 'TRANSITIONS' EXHIBIT INCLUDES FILM ON INFANTRY in The Washington Post , The Washington Post Company, Washington DC, USA, May 2010 Dodd, A. LOST & FOUND in Wanted , Business Day, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2010 Dobson, W. IDENTITY IN FLUX: THE TRANSITION TO NEW PERSPECTIVES in The Cape Times , Cape Town, South Africa, March 2009 Dodd, A. SOUNDSCAPES PAINSTAKINGLY CREATED in Business Day Arts , Business Day, Johannesburg, April 2009 Dias, J. LOST MEN MOÇAMBIQUE , in Arte em Movimento , Muv'art, Maputo, February 2009 Britz, E. KUNTSENAARSOOG BEKYK MANLIKE IDENTITEIT in Volksblad , Bloemfontein, February 2009 Roßkothen, K. VERLORENE MÄNNER IM WIND in Sylter Spiegel , Rantum, June 2009 Roßkothen, K. THE LOST MEN IN RANTUM in Hallo Sylt , Rantum, June 2009 Retzlaff, C. FRAGILE ZEICHEN GEGEN GEWALD in Sylter Spiegel , Rantum, June 2009 Sassen, R. EMMANUEL EXPLORES EVOLUTION OF LIFE in Cue , Grahamstown, July 2009 Sassen, R. FESTIVAL'S HALF – 'ARTED ATTEMPT in Cue , Grahamstown, July 2009 Myburgh, J. TRANSITIONS NA DIE SMITHSONIAN IN DIE VSA , in Beeld , Johannesburg, September 2008 van Schalkwyk, K. IDENTITY IN FOCUS in ScreenAfrica , Sun Circle Publishers (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, September 2008 Corrigal, M. FINE ARTIST SHOWS A FLARE FOR VIDEO in The Sunday Independent , The Sunday Independent, Johannesburg, September and in SA Art Times, Global Art Information, Johannesburg, October 2008 Bosman, N. INTRICATE OBSESSION in The Citizen , The Citizen, Johannesburg, October 2008 Dodd, A. ART PIG in SA Art Times , Global Art Information, Johannesburg, November 2008 Cohn, T. TRANSITIONS in Classic Feel , DeskLink Media, Johnannesburg, November 2008 Kaganof, A. PAUL EMMANUEL APARTHEID MUSEUM in Art South Africa , Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, December 2008 Dodd, A. TRANSITIONS PAUL EMMANUEL in Business Day Arts , Business Day, Johannesburg, December 2008 Buys, A. TRANSITIONS in The Guide-Visual Arts , Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, December 2007 Strauss, G. CHUTZPAH AND A SOLID PLAN TO REALISE A DREAM in Business Day Arts , Business Day, Johannesburg, June 2007 Myburg, J. KUNSLESSE IN MAPUTO in Beeld , Beeld, Johannesburg, June 2007 Humbelino, C. O SOLDADO DESCONHECIDO in Canal de Moçambique , Imprel, Maputo, May 2007 O’Toole, S. NO THANK YOU in Art South Africa , Volume 6 Issue 2, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, December 2006 Doherty, C. NAVIGATING THE BOOKSCAPE in @Joburg, Art and Technology , Wits School of the Arts, Johannesburg, October 2006 Dodd, A. HOLLARD ENTERS THE ART WORLD WITH A BANG in Business Day Arts , Business Day, Johannesburg, March 2006 Lampbrecht, B. PAUL EMMANUEL AFTER-IMAGE in Beeld , Beeld, Johannesburg, January 2006 Sassen, R. PAUL EMMANUEL AT THE OLD FORT in Artthrob , Artthrob, Cape Town, February 2005 Cohn, T. PAUL EMMANUEL, OLD FORT, CONSTITUTION HILL in Art South Africa, Volume 3, Issue 4, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, June 2004 Greslé, Y. WARS INCARNATED in Cue , Rhodes University, Grahamstown, July 2004 Tipping-Woods, D. HANGING ON THE HILL in Cue , Rhodes University, Grahamstown, July 2004 Gurney, K. NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL in Artthrob , Artthrob, Cape Town, September 2004 Greslé, Y. PERFORMANCES OF MASCULINITY in Art South Africa Volume 3, Issue 2, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, December 2004 Greslé, Y. /PAUL EMMANUEL in Art South Africa Volume 3 Issue 1, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, September 2003 Lampbrecht, B. PAUL EMMANUEL BY DIE STANDARD BANK GALERY in Beeld , Beeld, Johannesburg, March 2003 Dodd, A. PAUL EMMANUEL PERFECTS THE FINE ART OF TURNING ODDNESS INTO TRANSCENDENCE in The Sunday Independent , The Sunday Independent, Johannesburg, March 2002 Smith, K. WAX LYRICAL in Art South Africa , Volume 1 Issue 2, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, March 2001 Lampbrecht, B. PAUL EMMANUEL BY DIE BIG BAG SHOW BY THE GOODMAN GALLERY in Rapport , Rapport, February 2000 Warrington, R. THE EMERGENCE OF SOMETHING INTO BEING: PAUL EMMANUEL AT THE OPEN WINDOW , in ArtThrob , Issue No. 33, May

Independent critical writings about the artworks and practice of Paul Emmanuel Irene Enslé Bronner Critical Commemorative Practices in The Lost Men France by Paul Emmanuel De Arte, 1–23. Taylor and Francis, November, 2025 Print ISSN: 0004-3389 Online ISSN: 2471-4100 Read more → Mark Auslander and students enrolled at American University Museums, Difficult Dialogues and Social Repair Transcript of an interview with Paul Emmanuel conducted by students in an undergraduate, anthropology course by Professor Mark Auslander at American University, Washington D.C., U.S.A., May, 2024 Read more → Paul Emmanuel Untethered: Exploring Intimacy and Estrangement in Military Culture and Civilian Society. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, May, 2024 Read more → Irene Enslé Bronner Light on loss in new works by Paul Emmanuel. 'Image and Text' no 36, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, November, 2022 ISSN 2617-3255 Read more → Karen von Veh and Landi Raubenheimer Memorials, Landscape and White Masculinity: Dialogic Interventions in South African Art. 'Image and Text' no 36, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, November, 2022 ISSN 2617-3255 Read more → Mark Auslander Altered Carbon: Dramas of Detachment. Reflections on Paul Emmanuel's Substance of Shadows. 'Moving Cube', University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, September, 2021 Read more → Adelheid von Maltitz Art, Place, Death: The Transformative Power of Dynamic Thresholds. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, July, 2021 Document ID: 2002119739 Read more → Mark Auslander and Pamela Allara Platform Number 5: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog, Mark Auslander, June, 2020 Read more → Karen von Veh The Material of Mourning: Paul Emmanuel's Lost Men as Counter-memorials. 'Image and Text' no 34, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, December, 2020 ISSN 2617-3255 Read more → Ellen Schasttschneider, Mark Auslander and Pamela Allara Ex Unitate Vires: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, April, 2020 Read more → Mark Auslander Veil 1954: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, April, 2020 Read more → Pamela Allara Carbon dad 2017: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, March, 2020 Read more → Pamela Allara and Mark Auslander Between Men and Monuments: The Art of Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, March, 2020 Read more → Pamela Allara Shrouds on the Somme's Body 'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020 ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7 Karen von Veh Where Have All the Young Men Gone? 'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020 ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7 Annette Becker Paul Emmanuel: The Lost Men France (2014) 'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020 ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7 Karen Von Veh The Politics of Memory in South African Art. 'De Arte', UNISA Press, Pretoria, South Africa and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, February, 2019 ISSN 0004-3389 Read more → Andrew Peter Swanepoel Repositioning the Problematic Gender Formation of a Generation of White South African Men Through Performance Art Dissertation submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts at The University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August, 2018 Robyn Sassen Your Name, My Body. 'My View: The Arts at Large', Robyn Sassen, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2018 Read more → Johan Thom Impermanence: Paul Emmanuel. 'Paul Emmanuel: Impermanence', Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, March, 2018 Read more → Matthijs Sluiter The Lost Men Project. 'Fonts in Use', Fonts in Use LLC, Oakland, California, USA, 2018 Read more → Paul van Capelleveen Paul Emmanuel, The Lost Men Project. 'Reading is Touching in The Art of Reading', Museum Meermanno, The Hague, The Netherlands, November, 2017 Read more → Pamela Allara Paul Emmanuel: The Counter-memorial in the Age of Permanent War. 'Aesthetic Justice', College Art Association Conference, New York, USA, February, 2017 Read more → Pamela Allara Shrouds on the Somme: Paul Emmanuel's World War I Counter-Memorial. 'Paul Emmanuel: Remnants', Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January, 2016 Read more → Pamela Allara Mechanized Bodies: From the Armored Body to Technological Vision. 'Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict', School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, January, 2015 Read more → Clare Humphries Material Remains: The Afterlife of Personal Objects. An project submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, pp 228 – 231, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, October, 2014 Read more → Annette Becker À guerre mondiale, art mondial. 'Voir La Grande Guerre – Un Autre Récit', Armand Colin, Paris, France, October, 2014 ISBN 978-2-200-28757-3 Read more → Dominic Thorburn Borderline – Sweeping a Mind Field. ‘Borders & Crossings’ IMPACT 8 International Printmaking Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, August, 2013 Read more → Irene Enslé Bronner The 'person without the person' in the early work of Paul Emmanuel. 'De Arte', UNISA Press, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Volume 85, 2012, pp 42-58. ISSN 0004-3389 Read more → Pamela Allara Diane Victor and Paul Emmanuel: Lost Men Lost Wor(l)ds. 'Gender and South African Art' in 'African Arts', MIT Press Journals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Volume 45, No. 4, October 2012, pp 34-45. ISSN 0001-9933 Read more → Pamela Allara Paul Emmanuel’s Transitions: The White South African Male in Process. 'NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art', Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA. Issue 28, November, 2011, pp 58-66. ISSN: 1075-7163 Read more → Michael Smith FNB Joburg Art Fair Featured Artist Paul Emmanuel. 'ArtThrob', ArtThrob, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011 Read more → Irene Enslé Bronner Initimate Masculinities in the Work of Paul Emmanuel. A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts of Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 2011 Document ID: 2108 Read more → Robyn Sassen Under Covers: South Africa’s Apartheid Army – an Incubator for Artists’ Books. 'The Blue Note Book: Journal for Artists' Books', CFPR, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Volume 3, Number 1, October, 2008. ISSN 1751-1712 (print) 1751-1720 (online) Read more → André Croucamp Conversations on the Transience of Light. 'Transitions', Art Source South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 ISBN 978-0-620-41945-1 Read more → Aryan Kaganof Interview with Paul Emmanuel. 'Kagablog', Online blog, Aryan Kaganof, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 Read more → Robyn Sassen Of Circumcising and Circumscribing and Understanding Where I Fit In. 'Transitions', Art Source South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 ISBN 978-0-620-41945-1 Read more → David Paton The Sound of a Book: Sound as Generator of Narrative in the Reception of Selected New Media Objects as Books. 'Image & Text', No. 13, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007 ISSN 1020 1497 Read more → Robyn Sassen Attention Seeking Images. 'IMPACT International Printmaking Conference', Tallinn, Estonia, 2006 Read more → David Paton Interview with Paul Emmanuel. 'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface', David Paton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 ISBN 0-620-37094-7 Read more → Robyn Sassen Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface. 'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface', David Paton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 ISBN 0-620-37094-7 Read more → Julia Charlton Drawing out of the Darkness: Contemplating after-image. 'After-image', Paul Emmanuel, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004 ISBN 0-620-32295-0 Read more → Lisa Cohn The Lost Men. 'ITCH', Volume 1 Issue 1, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa, 2003 ISBN 0-6203-1894-5 Read more →

Paul Emmanuel IMPERMANENCE (2018) Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Remember-dismember , 2015, s ingle-channel, high-definition video, stereo soundtrack, 3 min 45 sec Impermanence , Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa 8 March – 7 April 2018 A solo exhibition installed in Rooms 1 and 2 of Fried Contemporary Gallery. Emmanuel was invited by the gallery to show a selection of works dated from 2004 to 2015, curated by Johan Thom and Shenaz Mahomed. Editioned photographic works from ‘The Lost Men’ (2004 –) were selected for this exhibition along with lithographic works from the ‘Transitions Multiples’ (2009 – 11) series and the video ‘Remember-dismember’ (2015). Presented in association with Art Source South Africa. Related content Review by Robyn Sassen (2018) Read more→ Gallery catalogue with essay by Dr. Johan Thom [PDF] Read more→ Remember-dismember garments PDF Read more→

Paul Emmanuel MEN AND MONUMENTS (2020-21) Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Men and Monuments , Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa 3 – 18 March 2020 and 6 – 30 April 2021 For the past 16 years, in an ongoing project titled ‘The Lost Men’, Emmanuel has challenged conventions around war memorials. He has questioned which soldiers are memorialised and which erased, and the stereotypes around soldiers and masculinity. In contrast to accepted practices where war memorials are erected using robust, permanent and immovable materials such as granite, he commemorates the forgotten using his own transient and vulnerable body to transform himself into a living, but temporary war memorial. Artworks from all three iterations of ‘The Lost Men’ are featured in ‘Men and Monuments’. A monograph titled ‘Paul Emmanuel’, edited by Professor Karen von Veh and with writings by Professor emerita Annette Becker, Professor Karen von Veh and Associate Professor emerita Pamela Allara, was published by the museum. Related content Review by Elizabeth Delmont (2021) Read more→ Essay by Pamela Allara and Mark Auslander (2021) Read more→ Review by Gemma Hart (2021) Read more→ Review by Amanda Khumalo (2021) Read more→ Purchase a book from the museum (email link) Learn more→

Paul Emmanuel RISING-FALLING (2021) Louis Botha Monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa Rising-falling, 2021, Single-channel, high-definition video, stereo soundtrack, 3 min 45 sec Rising-falling , General Louis Botha monument, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa 15 June 2021 On 15 June 2021, the day before South Africa's Youth Day commemoration, Emmanuel's existing video work ‘Remember-dismember’ (2015) was projected publicly onto the pedestal of the equestrian monument to General Louis Botha at the Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa. The intervention was documented live by Latitudes Online and simultaneously recorded on video to create a video artwork. This video artwork premiered on his solo exhibition ‘Substance of Shadows’ installed at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery in September 2021. Supported by Diversity Art Forum and The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Related content Memorials, Landscape and White Masculinity: Dialogic Interventions in South African Art article by Karen von Veh and Landi Raubenheimer for Image and Text journal (2022) [PDF] Read more→ June 16: Redemption Through Negation article by Sandile Ngidi for Mail and Guardian newspaper (2021) [PDF] Read more → Concept document [PDF] Read more→

Paul Emmanuel AFTER-IMAGE (2005) Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Info After-image Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa 5 – 29 April 2005 The third showing of this touring solo exhibition comprising early etchings and lithographs, photographs from The Lost Men Grahamstown (2004) and a major drawing also entitled After-image (2004). This drawing is permanently housed in the main reception room of Villa Arcadia as part of the Hollard Collection of South African Contemporary Art. After-image was exhibited in South Africa at the US Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, The Old Fort at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State and Villa Arcadia, Hollard House, Johannesburg, Gauteng. An illustrated, colour catalogue with essay by Julia Charlton was printed and published by US Art Gallery. Press release from Art Source South Africa [PDF] Catalogue essay by Julia Charlton Article by Alex Dodd for Business Day Art newspaper Article by Yvette Greslé for Art South Africa magazine

Paul Emmanuel TRANSITIONS (2010) Skylight Gallery, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA Info Transitions National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA 12 May – 22 August 2010 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the 7th showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008).Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum , Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art , Washington DC, USA in 2010. Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's Transitions project. Review by Michael O’Sullivan for The Washington Post (2010) Review by Alix McKenna for California Literary Review (2010) Review by A.M. Weaver for Art South Africa (2010) Article by Professor Emerita Pamela Allara for NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art (2011) Go to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art website Voice of America news [Video 3 min 6 sec] National Museum of African Art news release Smithsonian Institution press release [PDF] Go to 3SAI: A Rite of Passage page Transitions book with essay Conversations on the Transience of Light by André Croucamp [PDF] Transitions concept document [PDF] How the Transitions drawings were made [Video 2 min 42 sec] On making 3SAI: A Rite of Passage [PDF]

Paul Emmanuel THE LOST MEN FRANCE (2014) First World War Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, France Info The Lost Men France World War One Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France 1 July – 1 October 2014 The Lost Men France was a once-only counter-memorial and an official feature of the 2014 – 2018 First World War Centenary . It was temporarily installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme , Picardy, Northern France as an intervention in the Somme Circuit of Remembrance . In the battles that were fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, thousands of South African servicemen took part and died alongside the Allies but white and black South African men were valourised differently. The Lost Men France depicted these names alongside those of the Allies and Germans. Supported by La Mission du Centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale, Paris, Institut Français Paris / Johannesburg and The National Arts Council of South Africa . Review by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian (2014) Article by Antoine Flandrin in Le Monde (2014) Article in Designboom (2014) Interview on SABC TV Morning Live (2014)

Paul Emmanuel TRANSITIONS (2009) Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Info Transitions Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State province, South Africa 5 February – 8 April 2009 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the 2nd showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008). Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum , Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's Transitions project. Press release from Art Source South Africa [PDF] Go to 3SAI: A Rite of Passage page Transitions book with essay Conversations on the Transience of Light by André Croucamp [PDF] Transitions concept document [PDF] How the Transitions drawings were made [Video 2 min 42 sec] On making 3SAI: A Rite of Passage [PDF]

AIR ON THE SKIN (2003) Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Info Air on the Skin Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa 28 January – 15 March 2003 The Standard Bank Gallery hosted an exhibition of the major drawing Air on the Skin (2002) (Standard Bank Collection) in their ground floor exhibition space. The Johannesburg public also had the chance to view a sister work of the same title and year from the Sasol Collection. Air on the Skin won first prize at the Schumann-Sasol Wax in Art competition (2002). The show also featured a selection of lithographs and etchings as well as page proofs from the artists’ book Cathexis . A private viewing of this show was also mounted at Fordsburg Artists Studios from 13 to 20 September 2002. Artist’s statement For me, Air on the Skin is – among many other things – about exposure. Clothes are our outer coverings; they determine what we want the world to see of us, either by circumstance or choice, forming first impressions. They are an outer ‘skin’, which, like the dried remnants of an insect exoskeleton or snake scales, are shed, washed, re-worn or replaced. They are intricately involved in our evolution and transformation. Shoe polish reflects the light and changes the surface appeal of shoes, bags, belts and other human accoutrements. Shoe polish also absorbs the light when left in its untampered form. In this work it has been layered over acrylic to create the deeply recessive matt blackness which gives this work its depth. I think of these landscapes not as depictions of physical spaces, but as renditions of inner landscapes. Article by Alex Dodd in The Sunday Independent newspaper (2003) Article by Bettie Lampbrecht in Rapport newspaper (2003) Article by Kathryn Smith in Art South Africa (2002)

Paul Emmanuel TRANSITIONS MULTIPLES (2011) Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Info Transitions Multiples Goya Contemporary, Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 8 September – 5 November 2011 Transitions Multiples formed part of Emmanuel’s Transitions project in which he explores the way society constructs perceptions and performances of a masculine identity. The exhibition comprised a suite of hand printed, hand coloured 'manière-noire' stone lithographs as well as the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008). Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's Transitions project. Review by Cara Ober for Urbanite magazine (2011) Interview by Marc Steiner for the Marc Steiner Radio Show WEEA 88.9 FM (2011) Press release by Goya Contemporary [PDF] Purchase a catalogue from the gallery

Paul Emmanuel TRANSITIONS (2011) Rosenberg Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA Info Transitions Rosenberg Gallery, Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 9 September – 2 October 2011 Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the 9th showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008). Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum , Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's Transitions project. Marc Steiner chats to Paul Emmanuel , The Marc Steiner Show, WEAA 88.9 FM, Baltimore, USA, September 2011 [Podcast 33 min] Paul Emmanuel talks to MICA , Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA. [Video 34 min 43 sec] Go to 3SAI: A Rite of Passage page MICA Press release [PDF] Transitions book with essay Conversations on the Transience of Light by André Croucamp [PDF] Transitions concept document [PDF] How the Transitions drawings were made [Video 2 min 42 sec] On making 3SAI: A Rite of Passage [PDF]