Kupa’s scenes depict chaos and energy, representing the disorder of life for South Africa’s majority, particularly the Black population, who have had a life defined by struggle owed to an inability to access basic resources and information 
Asanda Kupa, was born in 1981 in Molteno, a semi-rural village in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Kupa currently lives and works in Johannesburg, but frequently returns to his childhood home.