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The Dark Web by Stevie Dow, Art Guide Australia 2019

Rats, rabbits and snakes surround skinny, angular, shirtless dancers, all rendered in black and white in a dark room whose filthy walls are daubed in drawings of aroused part-human, part-animal figures. The resulting images are seemingly scraped from the dank nightmares that the gentler conscious hours usually allow us to quickly forget.

New York-born, Johannesburg-based photo artist Roger Ballen calls this a “shadow world,” and this particular video collaboration with South African hip hop act Die Antwoord for their song I Fink You Freeky …