Robyn Perros
Robyn Perros is a South African writer, researcher and multimedia artist. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Rhodes University, where she is currently a PhD student and part-time instructor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies. Her work has been exhibited/presented/published in multiple spaces, such as the KZNSA Gallery, Theotherroom, the Open Plan Studio, “The symposium for artistic research in analog photography” (Helsinki Darkroom Association, 2022), the “Institutions and death” conference (University of Bath, 2022), Isele Magazine, Decolonial Passage, Mahala, Zigzag, Ja and Ons klyntji, among others. Her research looks at online death practices in South Africa. She lives in Makhanda. You can follow her on Tumblr.
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Fluid: interview with Robyn Perros, author of "The window display"
2023-05-31"I often want to look away from all that is broken here, and often still do, but there is something that makes looking away in South Africa particularly haunting, I find. If you look away with your eyes, does it mean you look away with your mind, your heart, etc?"