“Strange and Bitter fruit” is a selection of works from a larger body of work and is a continuation of my exploration of representation and sexualized otherness. The title “Strange and bitter fruit” is taken from Abel Meeropol’s poem “Strange Fruit” performed, most famously, by Billie Holiday. The song speaks about racism in America and the lynching of black American slaves.…
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Some Bodies Episode 1
17 August – 7 September 2013 Somebodies (Ep.1) Female identity is today much more than before, defined by outward appearances. To oppose the dictates of advertising and fashion world to create a few. The South African artist Nkule Mabaso this also has not in mind. Quite the contrary. Is this issue but the driver of their artistic work. How can…
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Black Threat, Zimbabwe
Maninzi Kwatshube Shocks Zimbabwean Theatre Audiences with Mabaso’s Black Threat A second year University of Cape Town drama student, Maninzi Kwatshube, brought a moving piece of theatre to the Savanna Trust hosted festival, Protest Arts International Festival (PAIF). This is the fourth edition of the festival and it ran under the theme ‘Imagining and Re-Inventing the Future’. When Maninzi heard…
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Lips Painted Red
Lips Painted Red is a project examining how female identities are created and maintained as daily routines, as experiments with personal or social life styles, as consequences of discomfort with gender expectations or with gender displacement. It examines these strategies through a variety of artists’ approaches – male and female, transgender, and of several generations – and through texts written by scholars for the forthcoming catalogue. The exhibition is Trondheim Kunstmuseum’s contribution to the centenary of women’s right to vote in Norway. It is curated by TKM director Pontus Kyander. The exhibition is open 22.6.–15.9.2013.…
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Krisp 2012: Group exhibition of emerging artists
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Sta-Soft-Fro
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Artifice
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Cruel Implements
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The Dread
The fantasy of longer, thicker, more luxurious hair plays on the idea that an exponential increase in hair will automatically result in an exponential increase in beauty. This black Rapunzel’s dreadlocks threaten to engulf and consume everything in their path, they are in control of her and seek to psychologically dominate all those attracted to them…
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Hair is where the story is
Sound abstracts from a series of powerful and moving conversations with friends and relatives on the subject of hair and the subjectivities it presents or belies. The conversations weave the intangible stories of self and personhood that sometimes manifest themselves in the adoption of particular hairstyles and modes of dress and how these come to represent how we wish to…