South Africa

Geraldine Fenn: Dispatch from the Colonies

Geraldine Fenn won the inaugural AJF Solo Exhibition Award. Her resulting show, Geraldine Fenn: Dispatch from the Colonies, displayed at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, explored power dynamics linked to the European colonization of Africa. She drew inspiration from cabinets of curiosities, in reverse: rather than displaying the colonized, she transforms the colonizers into exotic objects. This […]

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Mapungubwe Re-Mined: Creations of Contemporary Jewellery Design

Internationally, very little is known about the context of jewelry-making in South Africa and the history on which the practice of jewelry artists in South Africa is predicated. Since so much of South Africa’s gold was exported, there is relevance for the rest of the world. The archeology department of Pretoria University, in South Africa, published

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