Category: South Africa

• ALBUS – an exhibition of photography by Justin Dingwall and Thando Hopa (ArtCo Gallery, Germany)

  

  South African photographer Justin Dingwall and lawyer and model Thando Hopa have recently collaborated on a new project featuring photographic portraits that address albinism as a key theme. Both the model and the photographer have created a series of poignant images that invite audiences to reflect on – and rethink – attitudes towards beauty, skin colour, corporeality…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  November 22, 2016

  Art, Art – Politics, Exhibition Preview, Germany, Photography, South Africa

  Albinism, ArtCo Gallery, Justin Dingwall, Lebogang Mashile, Thando Hopa

• Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions – Jo’burg Conference, 17-19 November 2016

  

  “BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures” is the seventh conference in a series of transnational and diasporic conversations about imaging the black body. It offers a forum that gives artists, activists, educators and scholars from around the world an opportunity to share ideas, from historical topics to current research on the 40th anniversary of…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  October 2, 2016

  Africa, African Diaspora, Conferences, Contemporary African Art, Cultural Discourse, Diasporas, Fashion, Film, Photography, South Africa, Visual Analysis

  Afrofuturism, Corporeality, Cultural politics, Identity, Johannesburg, Kudzanai Chiurai, Representation, Scholar-activism, Sites of memory

• Creating African Fashion Histories – Conference at The Old Courtroom, Brighton, UK (November 2016)

  

  On Wednesday 2 November 2016 Brighton Museum and Art Gallery will be hosting a one-day conference – “Creating African Fashion Histories” – in partnership with the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Sussex Africa Centre, the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton. Coinciding with the first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion –…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 27, 2016

  Africa, Cities, Conferences, Cultural Discourse, Fashion, Kenya, Morocco, Museums, Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom

  Binyavanga Wainaina, Brighton and Hove, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Casablanca, Helen Mears, Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, Royal Pavilion and Museums

• Twenty Pound Spectacle: Brett Bailey (Exhibit B)

  The following article written by art historian Yvette Greslé presents a very detailed, beautifully written and carefully considered critique of Brett Bailey’s ‘Exhibit B’ project – which also (in turn) cites curator and academic Okwui Enwezor’s well-informed words of wisdom: “Despite the sincerity of the artists who have brazenly maintained a relationship in their work with…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 12, 2014

  Curating, Exhibitions, Racism, South Africa

  ‘Human Zoo’, Boycott, Exhibit B, Okwui Enwezor, Stereotyping, Yvette Greslé

• From Mancoba and Sekoto to Mslaba and Sibande: Johannesburg’s Post-Apartheid Emergence as an Art World City

  

  “The embarrassment that my presence caused – to the point of making me, in their eyes, some sort of ‘Invisible Man’ or merely the consort of a European woman artist – was understandable, as before me, there had never been, to my knowledge, any black man taking part in the visual arts ‘avant-garde’ of the…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 19, 2014

  Africa, Art, Contemporary African Art, South Africa

  Anti-apartheid, Anti-racism, Biennale/Biennial, COBRA Art Movement, Dumile Feni, Ernest Mancoba, Gallery MOMO, Gerard Sekoto, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Mary Sibande, Okwui Enwezor, William Kentridge