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Resistance Art (1974 - Present) (Patience on a monument (1988) (First as…
Resistance Art (1974 - Present)
Patience on a monument (1988)
First as painter, but later her work extended into installation, video, and photo-based media
Feminism - She is conscious of being a women and explores the position of women in her work
Contemporary art
Theme - History painting
Contains symbols of death or change as a reminder of inevitability
Theme - These artworks included black women who were the victims of the documented heroes, sold into slavery by the adventurers, killed or raped by soldiers, exploited by the colonial authorities
Subject matter - Monumental black women, classically draped with one breast revealed. She sits on a pile of waste and garbage from Western Civilization
Her handbag shows her feminism
Style - History still life painting
The background contains a collage of photocopied schoolbook illustrations showing the traumatic conflict over land
Medium - oil and collage
Butcher Boys (1985)
Aim - Her works refer to no specific case - only the tale that is told in the spectators mind. Aim of her work is to force questions regarding roles that were being played by the spectators
Social issues - Racism, Sexism and colonialism
Expresses - Anguish over violence committed during apartheid
Theme - Banality of evil : whites don't even recognize themselves for the monsters they are
Style - Realism
What we see - Skin is ghostly white, monster heads and heart surgery scars suggesting they are heartless
Medium - Sculptures and installations. Life-size (plaster and air-drying clay)
What we see - Their seated position shows passiveness and it is like they are waiting for something
What we see - They are personifications of the appalling violence, civil war, police brutality, child detentions, burning and looting of SA
They don't make them like they used to (2009)
Typical maids uniform
Sibande wants to celebrate them. She thinks they are heroes
Knitting a superhero outfit
Medium - Life size sculptures (cast in fiberglass and silicone) and photographic prints, and fabric
It would be hard for her to do work in a gown like this
She attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of women, particularly black women in our society. She looks at the generational dispowerment of the black women
Sophie (maid)
Sibande employs the human form as a vehicle to explore identity in a postcolonial SA, but also attempts to critique depictions of women
Eyes are closed - Fantasy dream world
Home and away
She experiments with the surface of her skin, allowing it to be clad in layers of colored and aromatic spices
Spices are a reference to the spice trade which brought white colonists to the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century and the interbreeding with the local inhabitants and slaves brought from the other parts of Africa
Her work confronts racial classification
Subject - Own body
Her body moves with the waves of the ocean, and a whisper comes to our ears, it says "I love... I fear... I leave"
Subject matter - Dislocation and longing of desperate working class men and women trying to reach Europe in search of new life.
A pool of black squid ink engulfs her diaphenous red and white robe and slowly surrounds her floating figure, echoing her use of spices to stain and obscure her body in her earlier works
Medium - Large-scale digital photographic prints and combines them with found materials to make her compelling installations
Penny Siopis
Jane Alexander
Mary Sibande
Bernie Searle
2003