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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Mary Sibande"”.
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"Sophie" reigns over dominant display practices : negotiating power in Mary Sibande's installations
Mary Sibande's Long Live the Dead Queen series is an on-going installation in the Johannesburg art gallery, MOMO. The subject of this series, Sophie, is a life-sized corporeal presence; she is Sibande's alter-ego cast from Sibande's own body. A central formal element of Sophie is her costume: a …
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Secular séance: Post-Victorian embodiment in contemporary South African art
… strategies and thematic concerns employed by Mary Sibande, Nicholas Hlobo, Mwenya Kabwe, Kathryn Smith and Santu Mofokeng, and argue that the common tactic of engagement is a focus on the body as the prime site of cognition and "the aesthetic as a form of embodiment, mode of …