“Lemmings” by Sanell Aggenbach is generally understood as a commentary on group mentality and how people can drift into collective, uncritical behaviour that edges toward self‑destruction, much like the popular myth about lemmings blindly following one another off a cliff. In line with Aggenbach’s broader practice, the work likely uses this image as a quiet, ironic metaphor to question how history, politics, and everyday culture encourage people—especially within South African and broader social contexts—to conform rather than think independently