SECTION 5: SA Contemporary Art
Diane Victor Berni Searle Steven Cohen Kendell Geers Mary Sibande Brett Murray
- Uncompromising - Focuses on issues of race - his object based or - Work focuses on asking - Her work attempts to - his works are witty, ironic,
directness and gender in a South performed work deal visitor ‘what do you critique stereotypical angry and aggressive
- Pessimistic view of south African context in as well with a wide range of believe in?’ it creates a depictions of black - His work from the mid
Africa and her works as the concept of identity issues related to the new decisive discomfort as it women in society 90s expresses an ironic
expose the sick inner South Africa regarding interrogates the viewer - She inverts social power dismay towards the
workings of the new SA such areas as sexuality, and asks them to for a by recon!guring a disillusioning discovery
- Use of multiple layers to race, ethnicity and class de!nition of positions domestic workers of how politicians
express emotion uniform into one of attempt to aggrandise
- Subject matter of the Victorian garb., as well as themselves at the
human form and its using her alter ego expense of the system
di"erent spatial and Sophie-Ntombikayise to
emotional relationships explore various issues
Consumer Violence Snow White Limping into the African Self Portrait Her Majesty Queen Sophie Identity
Renaissance
- 3 panels - video performance, - photograph of a broken - Mary transform be garb - shows a cut out form of a
- Traditional charcoal and artists nude and - the work !rst the beer bottle. of made into that of a traditional warrior in
pastel images of abuse indistinguishable as she president and Mbeki's - Addresses the social queen. traditional dress but in
with superimposed kneels still on the black vision of an African alienation the artist feels - The work transports the place of the head there is
drawings #oor. Renaissance unable to de!ne a South viewer to an alternate a large circular orange
- Controlled by western - addresses not only race - Cohan appears with a African identity realm where history disk with a beaming
ideals (Mickey Mouse and gender by activating dildo in his mouth - The artwork is a visual fantasy and identity smile and round black
and TV remote) viewers senses bondage mask, ballet play on words as the become outwardly eyes.
- Treated like meat as - Whiting out using #our stockings as well as the wording on the bottle is expressed through - Representative of how
opposed to human represents the colonial prostatic leg attached to referring to his history as clothing and cultural African identity has been
beings, the lasting e"ects practices of erasing his own. being imported stereotypes are lost due to western
of inequality indigenous populations - The prosthetic limp acts - the fact that the bottle is dismissed. ideals.
- Viewer in position of and culture. as social commentary, it broke echoes a sentiment - Through Sophie the
aggressor, creates - The slapping sound of is socially taboo to stare of violence and injury, the traditional role of black
uncomfortable emotions the artists hands against at a crippled or disabled object is on friendly yet women in South Africa
the #oor create rhythmic person, yet the remains intrinsically and other countries with
a e"ect and serve as mainstream view of fragile and vulnerable a a history of black
punishment for the homosexuality is that it is re#ection of Geers’ servitude is addressed by
viewer for looking at her a physiological defect personal feelings Sibande
nude body
Diane Victor Berni Searle Steven Cohen Kendell Geers Mary Sibande Brett Murray
- Uncompromising - Focuses on issues of race - his object based or - Work focuses on asking - Her work attempts to - his works are witty, ironic,
directness and gender in a South performed work deal visitor ‘what do you critique stereotypical angry and aggressive
- Pessimistic view of south African context in as well with a wide range of believe in?’ it creates a depictions of black - His work from the mid
Africa and her works as the concept of identity issues related to the new decisive discomfort as it women in society 90s expresses an ironic
expose the sick inner South Africa regarding interrogates the viewer - She inverts social power dismay towards the
workings of the new SA such areas as sexuality, and asks them to for a by recon!guring a disillusioning discovery
- Use of multiple layers to race, ethnicity and class de!nition of positions domestic workers of how politicians
express emotion uniform into one of attempt to aggrandise
- Subject matter of the Victorian garb., as well as themselves at the
human form and its using her alter ego expense of the system
di"erent spatial and Sophie-Ntombikayise to
emotional relationships explore various issues
Consumer Violence Snow White Limping into the African Self Portrait Her Majesty Queen Sophie Identity
Renaissance
- 3 panels - video performance, - photograph of a broken - Mary transform be garb - shows a cut out form of a
- Traditional charcoal and artists nude and - the work !rst the beer bottle. of made into that of a traditional warrior in
pastel images of abuse indistinguishable as she president and Mbeki's - Addresses the social queen. traditional dress but in
with superimposed kneels still on the black vision of an African alienation the artist feels - The work transports the place of the head there is
drawings #oor. Renaissance unable to de!ne a South viewer to an alternate a large circular orange
- Controlled by western - addresses not only race - Cohan appears with a African identity realm where history disk with a beaming
ideals (Mickey Mouse and gender by activating dildo in his mouth - The artwork is a visual fantasy and identity smile and round black
and TV remote) viewers senses bondage mask, ballet play on words as the become outwardly eyes.
- Treated like meat as - Whiting out using #our stockings as well as the wording on the bottle is expressed through - Representative of how
opposed to human represents the colonial prostatic leg attached to referring to his history as clothing and cultural African identity has been
beings, the lasting e"ects practices of erasing his own. being imported stereotypes are lost due to western
of inequality indigenous populations - The prosthetic limp acts - the fact that the bottle is dismissed. ideals.
- Viewer in position of and culture. as social commentary, it broke echoes a sentiment - Through Sophie the
aggressor, creates - The slapping sound of is socially taboo to stare of violence and injury, the traditional role of black
uncomfortable emotions the artists hands against at a crippled or disabled object is on friendly yet women in South Africa
the #oor create rhythmic person, yet the remains intrinsically and other countries with
a e"ect and serve as mainstream view of fragile and vulnerable a a history of black
punishment for the homosexuality is that it is re#ection of Geers’ servitude is addressed by
viewer for looking at her a physiological defect personal feelings Sibande
nude body
