• Installation, South African National Gallery, 2010
  • Ponte City, Windows,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Installation, South African National Gallery, 2010
  • Ponte City, Televisions,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Installation, South African National Gallery, 2010
  • Installation, FotoMuseum Antwerpen, 2014
  • Ponte City, Doors,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors,  2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows, Doors, Televisions (Light Boxes)  2008-2010 (Duratran prints)
Each 152 x 50 x 6 inches / 386.08 x 127 x 15.24cm or / 3880 x 1284cm

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  • Installation, South African National Gallery, 2010
  • Ponte City, Windows, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Installation, South African National Gallery, 2010
  • Ponte City, Televisions, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Televisions, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Installation, South African National Gallery, 2010
  • Installation, FotoMuseum Antwerpen, 2014
  • Ponte City, Doors, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Doors, 2008-2010 (detail)
  • Ponte City, Windows, Doors, Televisions (Light Boxes) 2008-2010 (Duratran prints) Each 152 x 50 x 6 inches / 386.08 x 127 x 15.24cm or / 3880 x 1284cm

Windows, Doors, Televisions

Between 2008 and 2011, Patrick Waterhouse and Mikhael Subotzky took a photograph out of every window in Ponte City, of every internal door, and of every television screen. This formed a part of their broader investigation of this giant residential tower block, a building that has come to symbolize the best and the worst of Johannesburg’s past, present and future. The resulting archive of over 2000 images has found form in three distinct triptych works – as lightboxes, as multi-channel projections, and as individual photographic prints.