‘The Boogeyman’ is a bright and cathartic gesture to initiate discussion on problematic social constructs regarding labour in South Africa, and in the global colonial landscape. It serves as a message from Stellenbosch to acknowledge ongoing traumatic inequities and the silent sacrifices of countless individuals, without which sincere sustainable progress and development is not possible.

Charles Palm is an installation artist whose passion for Cape ecologies and histories inspired him to study fine art. His work responds to the urgency of conflicts between ecological development and capitalist institutional growth. Through large scale immersive experiences, he focuses on indigenous folklores, histories and ancestries that have been entangled in colonial trade systems and industries across Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean basin. His site-specific works often include camera-obscura installations, digital light projections, improvisational soundscape performances and sculpture.

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