Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation explores liminal identities of seminal female artists in the Global South
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Monday, October 14, 2024


Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation explores liminal identities of seminal female artists in the Global South
Installation view.



JOHANNESBURG.- In the second of three exhibitions that forms part of the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation’s research on Female Identities in the Global South, this year’s exhibition explores hybridity and resistance in the artistic practices of seminal women artists from Latin America, the MENA region, the African diaspora and South Africa.

Titled Liminal Identities in the Global South, the exhibition will run for six months, from August 2021 to January 2022. With some artists and artworks new to the South African public, it features Jane Alexander, Lina Bo Bardi, Lygia Clark, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Kapwani Kiwanga, Ana Mendieta, Lygia Pape, Berni Searle and Sumayya Vally/Counterspace.

The exhibition considers heterogeneous forms of expression across art, architecture and music, from the 1960s to the present. Given the impact of Covid-19, the pandemic body forms a second curatorial thread running through the exhibition.

“The coronavirus pandemic has placed the world in a state of limbo or liminality,” explains Clive Kellner, Executive Director of JCAF, “so that we are caught between a pre-Covid-19 world and a world in which we imagine a better future.”

The exhibition is divided into five areas: Prelude, Requiem, Movements I, II and III, with each area conceptualised according to a moderate, fast or slow musical tempo that denotes a timebased experience of the exhibition.

It begins with a Prelude, an archive that includes the concept of anthropophagia (cultural ‘cannibalism’ or assimilation) developed by Oswald de Andrade in his Manifesto Antropófago (1928), and embodied in the painting Abaporu (1928) by the painter Tarsila do Amaral. The last item in this area, is a work by architect Lina Bo Bardi, who developed a quintessential Brazilian architectural language in the 1970s derived from indigenous vernacular expression. These concepts resonate with contemporary South African society, which is engaged in asserting itself against Western postcolonial cultural domination through various decolonising movements.

The Covid-19 pandemic is understood as an ‘event’ that ruptures the normal run of things and changes our perception of the world around us. In this liminal state, the second area – Requiem – reflects on previous pandemics such as the Black Death (bubonic plague, 1346–1353) and the Spanish Flu (influenza, 1918–1920).

The pandemic body is alluded to in the masks that appear in the works in Movement I. The ubiquity of the mask in our time is at once ominous and comforting. Masks filter the air we breathe, helping to prevent infection and possibly death, since it is through breathing that we can be infected by the virus.

Movement II explores the precarious nature of life, suggested by images of the female body in the landscape, rituals performed by women, and bouquets of flowers that decay over time. The passage of time, which encompasses death, ritual and trace, points in turn to liminality.

The exhibition culminates with Movement III. During afflictions and disasters such as the coronavirus pandemic we discover our ‘radical vulnerability’ and the need for grace. In this section eternity is represented by the colour gold and by luminescence and reflection.










Today's News

August 15, 2021

Teaching a new inclusiveness at The School

Teens cash in on the NFT art boom

A gallery sells Hunter Bidens. The White House says it won't know who's buying.

In the footsteps of a woolly mammoth, 17,000 years ago

Gerald Peters Contemporary opens a solo exhibition of work by Patrick Dean Hubbell

Large-scale exhibition focuses on the handling of industrial themes in painting and photography

Scientists name new frog-legged beetle fossil for Sir David Attenborough

Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz joins the Centro Botín team as the new Director of Exhibitions and the Collection

Groundbreaking exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum explores alternative history of photography

Pace Gallery opens an exhibition of works by JoAnn Verburg

Phillips to present 'What the Fork?' by Slimesunday

Exhibition features new works by Tegan Brozyna Roberts, Simona Prives and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey

'Earthbound: Contemporary Landscape from the Roberts Institute of Art' opens at Sheffield Museums

Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation explores liminal identities of seminal female artists in the Global South

Now on view: Kinke Kooi's anthropomorphic gardens at Adams and Ollman

Indonesia's Edwin wins Locarno film festival

Contemporary Istanbul moves to historic new location

Boca Raton Center for Arts & Innovation receives first capital donation of $5 million from the Stein Family

Performa announces Rashid Johnson as board chair, and Todd Bishop as treasurer

Artists launch the Aspen Space Station

212 Photography Istanbul to spread the festival spirit throughout the city 1-11 October 2021

The Arts Society to host over 400 events accross the UK to bring communities together

Jan Lisiecki, piano's Doogie Howser, comes of age with Chopin

Janice Mirikitani, poet and crusader for people in need, dies at 80

The Truth Behind the Rise of Influencer Culture!

11 Secrets For A Perfect Hiking Trip

How to Get a Cheap Divorce in New Jersey

How to Get a Cheap Divorce in Washington?




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful