South African Visual Artist Senzeni Marasela’s work creates a tension between the narrations of public wounding and her private one.
- South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
In an image-saturated world, it can feel like we are beyond being moved. But five exhibitions in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province in 2016 managed to capture memory and ego in exactly the right proportions.
Hidden underneath painting codes are the violence and bloodshed of colonial exploitation. ‘Lull’ is a daunting reminder of this.
‘African Guernica’ is an incredibly powerful work of art in many ways, importantly filling that space between the visible and the visible.
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