This artwork was loaned to the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger van Wyk, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, December 12, 2009–February 28, 2010. It is indexed here as part of Smith and Van Wyk’s revisiting of the Dada South? Archive of materials at A4 Arts Foundation.

The Swing (after after Fragonard) documents a public intervention that took place at the Kwa Mai Mai Market in Joburg’s inner city. Its action and title reference both the celebrated 18th-century painting The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard and Yinka Shonibare’s representation of the work's wealth, frivolity, and luxury in his 2001 sculptural installation The Swing (After Fragonard). Kukama's intervention restaged the painting as a performance, the titular swinger interacting with her incongruous surroundings and vulnerable to being interrupted. The fairytale landscape is replaced by a bustling market of traditional healers and taxi divers; the frivolous kick of the swinger’s shoe by the occasional 5c coins and R10 notes, which she drops into the street beneath her. The work offers a darkly humorous take on embracing “crisis” as an aesthetic in art.