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..., in October 2011. More than any other artist, Kentridge has shaped international perceptions of apartheid in South Africa. This exhibition pays due homage to that achievement but also insists on recognizing the artist’s prodigious visual inventiveness, the worldwide relevance of his work. Recently he has been...

...Quinn Schoen The catalyst of millions of arrests, fervent protests, and a police-led massacre, the passbook is a haunting relic of apartheid South Africa. Operating as a colonial appendage to be carried, tucked away, and presented to police on demand, these pocket-sized identification books...

...Tamar Garb © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 REVIEWS JACOB DLAMINI schema.1 Accompanying them was an The photographs alone tell us little. THE TERRORIST index that arranged its subjects into a Once used as prompts for interroga- ALBUM: APARTHEID S simple system: S1 stood for white, S2 tion...

... photographer who worked with Okwui on The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (Prestel, 2013). South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky, based in Johannesburg, showed work in Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (Steidl, 2006...

... Reflections on Post-Apartheid and coeditor, most Pine , 2008. Ink and glue on canvas, 160 x 206 cm. recently, of Johannesburg—The Elusive Metropolis...

..., and photographic work, this exhibition offered viewers a rare opportunity to explore the scope of Alexander’s artistic universe. Against the backdrop of apartheid and its aftermath, Alexander’s artistic practice draws on her sensitivity to sociopolitical issues to examine the hybridity and mutability of human...

... significant for an artist who, in the 1980s at the height of the antiapartheid movement, made ardently realistic figurative oil and mixed-media paintings that signified the psychic detritus of apartheid’s pathologies. The weighty sparseness of Siopis’s Cake paintings (1981–81) and the airless excess...

...Peter Erickson William Kentridge’s 9 Drawings for Projection present white characters in the context of apartheid caught between guilt and redemption, with special attention to the intermediate terrain. Felix in Exile , the fifth film, suggests that the dismantling of the structures of white racism...

...Salah M. Hassan This article contemplates the life and work of the Oxford-based South African artist and activist Gavin Jantjes, born in 1948 when apartheid officially became the law of the land in South Africa with the National Party’s election to power. Because Jantjes’s understanding of his role...

... dedicated to preserving and witnessing political and social injustice as well as critiquing apartheid-era censorship and systematic erasure of evidence. Msezane’s embodied rebuttal to colonial and patriarchal figurations of power proffers an alternative vision of the event in which new subjectivities appear...

... as a metaphor for the meeting point of two indecipherable South Africas. Under apartheid, Johannesburg was two “countries,” and people lived in two different realities, depending on one’s history, geography, race, ethnicity, class, gender, culture, education, and opportunities. Enwezor constantly confronted...

... innovation allowed a nation or region of the world to position itself as the model of modernity and cultural sophistication. Many newly independent African nations were eager to reposition themselves on the world stage, and fashion became one way to do so. In apartheid-era South Africa, such politics were...

... look at the history of the gesture in apartheid-era visual culture, however, quickly reveals the importance of local context, and the mutable associations of the raised fist. Moreover, as several theorists and historians of South African photography have suggested, a static, humanizing view of gesture...

...Tamar Garb This essay looks at the way in which the history of South Africa is imprinted in representations of place. It examines images of the land as sites of inscription, exploring the residue of deep colonial history as well as the more immediate past of apartheid on the signs and signifiers...

... the American Apartheid epoch. Vertiginously brilliant and highly self-conscious, the Black Arts core leadership held sharply defined notions of mission and success, sometimes undervaluing the impact of Black Aesthetics as its critical-theoretical ally in academe and the culture industry. That core did...

... in South Africa’s National Gallery. His career flourished until he joined up to serve his country in World War II. In 1956, during the “urban removals” enforced by the Nationalist government’s apartheid policy, Tladi and his family were brutally dispossessed of their freehold property and left homeless. He...

...Geoffrey Jacques The exhibition of prints Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now , curated by Judith B. Hecker at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, offered a view of South African art-making practice that flourished among all sectors of society during the apartheid years. The exhibition evoked...

...Iheanyi Onwuegbucha [email protected] © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 Sue Williamson Lebohang Kganye apartheid collective memory cross-generational dialogue REVIEW SUE WILLIAMSON AND LEBOHANG KGANYE Tell Me What You Remember THE BARNES FOUNDATION, PHILADELPHIA MARCH 5 MAY 21...

... in South Africa on a more nuanced. human level. Above and opposite: Stills from Foots, 1998. Rory Bester • n the last decade, anti-apartheid films with South Africa...