Title: We Outside
Year: 2025
Medium: Digital Collage
Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches
Artist: Anthony B. Adeaba
Description:
“We Outside” is a celebration of Amapiano’s cool defiance—an ode to the new South African frequency where basslines bend reality and streetwear becomes armor. In this piece, music is geography. Township murals rise like cathedrals, while Soweto boys on a chain-link backdrop stare into a future only they can imagine.
The central figures—Major League DJz, Focalistic, and a crew draped in flame-stitched elegance—channel the aesthetic militancy of youth reclaiming power. Amapiano is not just heard here, it’s worn. It’s coded into braids, shades, and gold-flecked hands that signal joy and resilience.
South African landmarks blend with sacred textile patterns. Women—warriors of softness—stand not as muses but as muscled creators of their own myth. “We Outside” is a visual chant. It is dance-floor resistance. A celebration of sonic identity forged on southern soil and launched into the world.