Sakkie Suike
Sakkie Suike is a visual project developed in collaboration with Caleb Meyer, rooted in a reimagining of familiar domestic spaces within Cape Coloured cultural contexts.
The work explores how memory, identity, and queerness are carried through environment, gesture, and image.
Overview
This project draws from the visual and emotional language of the “front room” and kitchen — spaces deeply tied to heritage, storytelling, and everyday performance within Cape Coloured homes.
Rather than documenting these environments directly, the work reconstructs them through a surreal lens, where texture, light, and composition become tools for reworking memory. The images operate as both reflection and intervention — holding what is familiar while allowing it to shift, distort, and expand.
Visual language
The visual language is built through layering.
Textiles, lace, floral patterns, and everyday objects are used not simply as props, but as carriers of memory — holding histories of intimacy, care, and presence. Light, shadow, and projection introduce moments of distortion, allowing the image to shift between clarity and abstraction.
Alongside this, a second visual register strips the environment back — placing emphasis on the body, gesture, and styling. Here, identity is articulated through movement and self-presentation, where subtle and overt queer signifiers begin to surface.
Across both approaches, the image resists resolution — remaining open, textured, and in negotiation.
Process
The process moved between research and lived reference.
Drawing from culturally specific interiors, family archives, and material textures, the project developed through assembling, layering, and reworking space in the studio. The shoot itself remained responsive — allowing moments of performance, stillness, and spontaneity to inform the final image.
This approach allowed the work to exist between control and intuition.
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Credits
Artist: Caleb Meyer
Creative Direction: Rihan Jantjies