Personal Affects
dal 23/2/2006 al 6/5/2006
Segnalato da
Jane Alexander
Wim Botha
Steven Cohen
Churchill Madikida
Mustafa Maluka
Thando Mama
Samson Mudzunga
Jay Pather
Johannes Phokela
Robin Rhode
Claudette Schreuders
Berni Searle
Doreen Southwood
Clive van den Berg
Minnette Vári
Diane Victor
Sandile Zulu
Laurie Ann Farrell
David Brodie
Churchill Madikida
Sophie Perryer
Liese van der Watt
23/2/2006
Personal Affects
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art.
Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art features
seventeen artists from South Africa working in diverse media, including sculpture,
drawing, photography, painting, installation and video. Recalling the past, looking
toward the future, and touching upon religion, politics, art, and the poetics of the
body, Personal Affects represents work by a new generation of South African artists
who, in their personal practices one decade after the end of Apartheid, consider the
recent history of social and political struggle however supplant it as the fulcrum
of intellectual endeavor with their own expressions of purpose, intention, and
individualism.
The Hawaii presentation of Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South
African Art reveals the increasingly mutual artistic concerns between art-making
practices in Hawaii and places as distant as South Africa. The distinctive cultural
hybridity in both Hawaii and South Africa speaks to the dynamics of difference and
inclusion in race, socio-economic divisions, language, customs, belief systems, and
object/image making, among other things. As other locations in the world become
increasingly less marginal to those inside and outside of (mainly Western)
socio-economic urban centers, these dynamics become interwoven as one rich,
discursive cultural fabric - one that is as familiar and spirited in Hawaii as it is
in South Africa and which thus tangentially addresses issues of exclusion from the
circuit of international contemporary art.
Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art was originally
exhibited at the Museum for African Art and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in
New York, September 2004-January 2005, as part of Season South Africa to commemorate
South Africa’s first decade of democracy.
Personal Affects includes newly commissioned and recently produced works by some of
the most compelling contemporary visual and performing artists from South Africa
selected by an international team of curators whom include Laurie Ann Farrell,
Curator at the Museum of African Art, David Brodie, Churchill Madikida, Sophie
Perryer and Liese van der Watt. Moving beyond the confines of identity politics
towards subtler investigations of agency and affect, this exhibition looks at works
of art as the powerful and poetic expressions that artists leave behind.
Participating artists are Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Churchill
Madikida, Mustafa Maluka, Thando Mama, Samson Mudzunga, Jay Pather, Johannes
Phokela, Robin Rhode, Claudette Schreuders, Berni Searle, Doreen Southwood, Clive
van den Berg, Minnette Vári, Diane Victor and Sandile Zulu.
A comprehensive two volume catalogue will accompany the exhibition, and is available
for purchase.
Opening: 24 February 2006
The Contemporary Museum
2411 Makiki Heights Drive - Honolulu
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday noon - 4pm