Alienation, Home and Humanity: Jonathan Hindson’s ‘Home’

“I went to see Jonathan Hindson’s ‘Home’ at Gallery MOMO and naturally, Toni Morrison’s novel of the same title sprang to mind, especially its epigraph: ‘whose house is this?’ For the book’s protagonist, Frank Money, home – far from being a kind of permanence or belonging – becomes a site on which to contest the very ideas inherent in its classic definitions. Home, in Hindson’s series of paintings, seems to be losing its grip on permanence and finds itself as nothing more than one’s own self-delusion.”-Lwandile Fikeni(February 4, 2016,ARTTHROB)

Click to continue reading