Mikhael Subotzky’s film, video and photographic works are concerned with the structures of narrative and representation, as well as the relationship between social storytelling and the formal contingencies of image making. He was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently based in Johannesburg. His work has appeared in several group and solo exhibitions at galleries including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2008), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2013) Yale Art Gallery (New Haven, 2014) and Art Unlimited (Basel, 2014), Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh, 2014), FoMU (Antwerp, 2014) and Le Bal (Paris, 2014), Liverpool (2012) and Lubumbashi (2013) Biennales, as well as the South African National Gallery (Cape Town, 2010). In 2015, he won the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize for his work Ponte City w in collaboration with Patrick Waterhouse. He was also a residency at the Musée MAC/VAL (Paris, 2013). His exhibition Retinal Shift was produced on the occasion of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2012 and toured South Africa’s major museums.