Athi-Patra Ruga reworks Irma Stern’s iconic art pieces 

Athi-Patra Ruga is a South African visual and performance artist.
Since 2008, Athi’s work has been in conversation with the art of Stern, reworking such iconic paintings as Stern’s Watussi Queen, Swazi Youth and Zulu Woman. Now Ruga will be working from a studio at the Irma Stern Museum, engaging with the famed painter at the intimate level of her former home.