Artists: Candice Breitz, Mohau Modisakeng
Curator: Lucy MacGarry, Musha Neluheni
Producer: Ann Roberts
Essays by: Nathi Mthethwa, Lucy MacGarry, Sisonke Msimang, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Zoé Whitley, and Hlonipha Mokoena
Gallery: The South African Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Dates: 13 May 2017 – 26 November 2017
Website: (interview) https://artthrob.co.za/2017/04/21/venice-biennale-2017-artthrob-chats-to-south-africa-pavilion-curator-lucy-macgarry/
Pages: 69
The South Arican pavilion presents Candice Breitz + Mohau Modisakeng, a two person exhibition that explores the disruptive power of storytelling in relation to historical and contemporary waves of forced migration. The exhibition foregrounds the challenging narrative structures via which each artist addresses violent experiences of displacement, focusing on the precarious conditions that pertain to subjectivity within contexts of migration, exclusion and transience. What is it to be visible in everyday life, it seeks to ask, yet invisible and disregarded at the level of cultural, political or economic representation?
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