Africanis Dog, Sneeuberg Pass, Murraysburg District, South Africa, 2009

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.”

—Franz Kafka

Aperture Foundation is pleased to offer a limited-edition photograph by Daniel Naudé from work featured in Aperture magazine issue 207 (Summer 2012). While on a road trip through South Africa’s Karoo region in 2006, Naudé encountered a feral dog foaming at the mouth and wearing an intent gaze. This run-in motivated Naudé to begin his series of photographs of the Africanis, wild dogs thought to have migrated from Egypt and now inhabiting the South African countryside. Although in Naudé’s images the dogs appear to sit politely and patiently for their portraits, photographing these lithe, skittish animals is not an easy task. The Africanis project is the first of three series by Naudé to examine the complicated relationship between humans and fauna, and the symbolic roles that animals often play in our world.

C-Print
Image Size: 23 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches
Paper Size: 29 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches
Edition of 20 + 3 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Daniel Naudé (b. 1984, Cape Town, South Africa) graduated with a BA Visual Arts from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007. Naudé had solo exhibitions at Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2011, 2010 and 2014) and showed selected photographs from Animal Farm in the print room at The Photographers’ Gallery in London (2013). Group shows include Chroma (Cape Town) and The Loom of the Land (Johannesburg), at Stevenson in 2014 and 2013; Artist House, New Art Centre, Wiltshire (2014); Apartheid and After at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2014); the Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom (2012); Neither Man Nor Stone at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2012); Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria (2011); Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennial, Mali (2011); Greatest Hits of 2007 at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2011); Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, works from the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, in Modena, Italy (2010); and PEEKABOO – Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010). He took part in the Fall 2011 residency programme at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado. In 2015, he Naudé had select work in the exhibition, In Focus: Animalia, at The J. Paul Getty Museum. His first book, Animal Farm, has been published by Prestel (2012). Naudé currently lives and works in Cape Town.