Josephy\\\’s primary focus in her photographic work has been the study of how identity and landscape are constructed. Specifically, she is most well known for drawing parallels between \\\”twin towns\\\” in South Africa and in other parts of the world. Her project of \\\”twin towns\\\” examines the peculiar names of South Africa\\\’s settlements and suburbs. Examples include: Sun City, Lost City, Lapland, Beverley Hills, Egoli,Cuba, Kosovo, Lusaka, Malibu, Hyde Park, Green Park, Lavender Hill, Athlone, Harare, Waterfront, Potsdam, Bosnia, Beirut, Iraq and Hanover Park.These names evoke certain images that can be connected and related to various parks, streets, cities and countries located all over the globe.
Josephy mostly concentrates on the various settlements that surround cities in South Africa. She focuses on tracing the complex set of relationships, identifying both differences and parallels, with places or events after which South African settlements are named. Her images are for the most part presented in diptychs, which exhibit the ‘original’ and the ‘copy’ in contrast to one another.
artifice Bell-Roberts colonial colony construction copy fiction history inequality Michaelis naming nature original photography reality social commentary Svea Josephy themepark UCT urban Vermeer Virgina MacKenny Andrew Lamprecht
Essays: Virginia MacKenny, Andrew Lamprecht
Gallery & Publisher: Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
Dates: 14 November 2007 – 22 December 2007
Website: (review) http://artthrob.co.za/07dec/reviews/bellroberts.html
Pages: 40
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