REVIEWS: Reshma Chhiba

Reviews of exhibitions by/with Reshma Chhiba

Heywood, Mark (2023) The irrepressible force within us — conjuring a tale of two dances. Daily Maverick. 7 July 2023.
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Jamal, Ashraf (2020) Tomorrow There Will Be More Of Us: The Materiality of South Africa’s Stellenbosch Triennale. Contemporary And. 27 March 2020.
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Zietsman, Gabi (2020) Stellenbosch’s – and SA’s – social tensions reflected in Triennale art exhibits. News24. 10 Feb 2020.
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REVIEWS: Shelley Barry

Fisher, Tyrone (2019) Creativate Digital Arts Festival: Something For The Insanely Curious. between 10 and 5 (online).
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Moonsamy, Nedine (2019) The poetic revolution will not be anthologized. africasacountry September 2010 (online).
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Kamaldien, Yazeed (2016) Cape poet urges universities to teach his work. Sunday Argus 27 March 2016.
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2015 Two Short Films by South African filmmaker Shelley Barry at the Firehouse this April. Manhattan Neighbourhood Network (online).
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Collison, Carl (2014) An ode to a dissident. Southern Suburbs Tatler, 12 June 2014
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Jacobs, Sean (2010) Film director Shelley Barry @ NYU. africasacountry 28 April 2010 (online).
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Tsumele, Edward (2008) Wits Arts and Literature Experience, 3-6 April 2008. Sowetan Live 3 April 2008 (online).
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Willemse, Nicky (2007) Opposing worlds united on screen. Weekend Post (n.d.)
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2005 disABILITIES Film Festival Archive, The Museum of disABILITY History, New York (online).
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Senzeni Marasela

Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Senzeni Marasela

Senzeni Marasela is a cross-disciplinary artist who explores photography, video, prints, and mixed-medium installations involving textiles and embroidery. Her work deals with history, memory, and personal narrative, emphasizing historical gaps and overlooked figures. Her work includes embroidery, print and video as well as performance and has been widely exhibited in South Africa, Europe and the US. Her work features in prominent local and international collections, including MoMA, New York. She was recently part of the Johannesburg Pavillion at the last Venice Biennale.

Born in Thokoza, South Africa, Marasela studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she obtained a BA Fine Arts in 1998. In 2003 she started a project titled Theodorah comes to Johannesburg, a durational performance based on her mother Theodorah’s stories about travels from the rural area of Mvenyane to Johannesburg, a journey of 11 hours. Like many young black women in the city, her mother was traumatised by events that took place in apartheid South Africa during the 1960s. Many black women returned to live in the countryside and many more were forced to undertake journeys into strangeness. Marasela wore a yellow dress that her mother gave her, taking on Theodorah as an alter ego. The artist has always felt that Theodorah’s story was representative of that of many black women in South Africa. The emblematic yellow dress has been translated into drawings, prints and thread works, always with the figure’s back to the audience. The story of Theodorah never left Marasela’s work and has at times been combined with that of Sarah Baartman (who was ‘exhibited’ around nineteenth- century Europe as the ‘Hottentot Venus’) and of the artist herself.

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Dr Sharlene Khan and Senzeni Marasela at Rhodes Fine Art Department on 26 April 2018.

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Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa, [download pdf here]
Axis Gallery, New Jersey, USA, [download pdf here]
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Sharlene Khan

Sharlene Khan is a South African visual artist who works in multi-media installations and performances, which focus on the socio-political realities of a post-apartheid society and the intersectionality of race-gender-class. Khan uses masquerading as a postcolonial strategy to interrogate her South African heritage, as well as the constructedness of identity via rote education, art discourses, historical narratives and popular culture. She has exhibited in the UK, Italy, France, Germany, South Africa, India, South Korea, Greece and has participated in various international conferences. Her writings on contemporary visual arts appears in journals, books, art catalogues and magazines including Art South Africa, ArtthrobSpringerinManifestaContemporary-AndThe Conversation Africa, Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and African StudiesAgenda and The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education.

Khan has been a recipient of the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary (1998), the Rockefeller Bellagio Arts residency (2009), the Canon Collins/Commonwealth Scholarship (2011), the African Humanities Post-doctoral Fellowship (2017), the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Visual Arts (2018), and was runner-up winner in the Videokunst Preis Bremen video art award (2015). She has been nominated twice for the South African Women in the Arts award (Painting) and has received funding from the National Arts Council multiple times. Khan has published three books on her work: What I look like, What I feel like (2009), I Make Art (2017), When the moon waxes red… Negotiating Subjective Terrain as an ‘Inside-Outsider’, an ‘Outside-Insider’ (2019). She is co-convenor of the annual African Feminisms (Afems) Conference; runs the Art on our Mind Research Project; the bi-weekly Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group and the Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab. She holds a PhD (Arts) from Goldsmiths, University of London and is Associate Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Wits School of the Arts, Wits University, Johannesburg. 

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Shelley Barry

Shelley Barry lectures at the Department of Journalism, Film and Television Academic at the University of Johannesburg. Barry was born and raised in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and completed graduate studies in English and Drama at the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape. She has worked extensively as a disability rights activist, following a shooting in the Cape taxi wars of 1996 that resulted in her being a wheelchair user. She has held positions as Media Manager in the Office on the Status of Disabled Persons in the Presidency and as the National Parliamentary Policy Co-ordinator for Disabled People South Africa. During this time, she co-ordinated Nelson Mandela’s guard of honour for his State of Nation address in 1997. Barry was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship and graduated with an MFA in Film at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2006. She was a Carnegie scholar at Wits University from 2007-2008 and taught documentary at Big Fish School of Digital Filmmakingand at UWC where she pioneered filmmaking in the Women’s and Gender studies department. Barry held positions in the FPB South Africa, Mediaworks and currently serves on the board of Street Stories Films. She is associated with Gun Free South Africa and gave a testimony towards ending gun violence at the United Nations in 2006. 

Barry developed and managed the Programming department at Cape Town TV (CTV) 2008- 2010, which offers training workshops in filmmaking. She facilitated filmmaking workshops at The Saartjie Baartman Centre and for the organisation Genderdynamix; the Feroza Adam Legacy Programmemade it possible to run various further filmmaking programmes. Barry ran the community based film school and production company twotrainingwheels which aims to explore new languages in cinema and marginalised voices having access to the craft of filmmaking. She is currently training 15 young women in mobile phone filmmaking in Diepsloot, Johannesburg and is based at The University of Johannesburg where she teaches film. She commences her Creative PhD in film at The University of the Witwatersrand since 2018. 

Barry’s films span across genres and are largely experimental in style. She often shoots her own films, exploring the aesthetics of cinematography from the perspective of a wheelchair user. Screenings of her work have been held at major festivals and events around the world and been acquired by television, including MTV, DUTV and WYBE in the U.S and SABC and etv in South Africa. She was selected to be on the SA film delegations to MIPCOM, France, The European Film Market, Berlin, The Rio Content Market, Brazil, Cannes, France and The Tribeca Film Festival, New York. In 2017 she was selected to be the filmmaker of focus for the Mzansi Women’s Film Festival.

Awards include: Audre Lorde scholarship; Distinguished Graduate Student Award (Pennsylvania Association of Graduate schools); best film awards for the experimental documentary titled Whole-A Trinity of Being at international festivals in NYC, Canada, Moscow, San Francisco, Toronto, Philadelphia and New Jersey; best documentary for Where we planted trees (Diamond Screen film festival Philadelphia). Inclinations made the top ten best click list on MTN online. etv commissioned Diaries of a Dissident Poet on poet James Matthews, which premiered to a sold-out audience at Encounters in 2014. In 2018, she received the SAFTA award for Outstanding Disability Contributor to the SA Film and Television industry.

The process of reclaiming my body was an exceptionally powerful and liberating experience. I understood desire and sensuality from a completely different perspective. I realized that passion is something that everyone can access (it is not reserved for the young and the able-bodied), and it can suffuse through every aspect of our lives. I recognized the importance of self-love as opposed to requiring af rmation from others in order to love myself.

Shelley Barry (2006) Disability and desire: journey of a Filmmaker.
Feminist Africa 6, 65.

CREATIVE DIALOGUE

Shelley Barry and Beverley Barry in conversation at Rhodes Fine Art Department on 29 September 2018.

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Sophie Peters

Sophie Peters is a painter and printmaker, songwriter and musician who creates designs for everyday life, including T-Shirts, cloth bags, carved wooden bag carrying handles, jewellery and pillowcases among others. Her artistic practice unfolds across different media and forms of expression, reflecting on her personal history, spiritual connections, and relations to people, places and times in which she lives.

Peters was born in 1960 in Johannesburg and moved to Cape Town to study art. After completing a two-year course at the Community Arts Project (CAP) in Cape Town in 1987, she attended part-time ceramic classes with Barbara Jackson, and advanced teacher training. She has been teaching in numerous art education programmes throughout the Cape Peninsula since 1987. 

She mostly works in oil, pastels, mixed media, prints, linocuts, monoprints and etchings through which she addresses personal and social issues in South Africa. As a founding member of the Mural Collective, she has designed and painted solo and group murals, including four murals for the 1990 Zabalaza Festival in London which were realised with other South African artists.

Peters has exhibited nationally and internationally, and illustrated numerous books and publications. Her work is represented in the South African National Gallery, as well as in private collections in South Africa, Europe, USA and Australia.

CREATIVE DIALOGUE

VIDEO: Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue Sharlene Khan and Nono Motlhoki in conversation with Sophie Peters on 5 November 2021

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WORKS: Lallitha Jawahirilal – Exhibitions

Exhibitions by/with Lallitha Jawahirilal

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 The African Art Centre, Durban
2002 Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
2001 Puddled Sand and Red Ashes, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Australia 
1999 Curwen Gallery, London
1996 New Academy Gallery, London
1994 New Academy Gallery, London
1991 Galerie Trapez, Berlin
1990 Gallery 21, Johannesburg
1990 198 Gallery, London
1985 Africa Centre, Stockholm 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

Lallitha Jawahirilal was part of a recent group exhibition at Michaelis Galleries

Other group exhibitions include:

2007 ‘Confluence’, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad
2007 16th Anniversary Art Salon, Bangalore
2006 ‘Art Camp’, Renaissance Art Centre, Mumbai
2005 River Arts & Music Festival, Ladysmith, South Africa
2004 ‘Decade Of Democracy’, South African National Gallery, Cape Town 
2003 ‘Journeys’, Ernest G. Welsh School of Art and Design, Atlanta
2001 ‘Jabulisa, The Art of KwaZulu Natal’, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
2000 African Art Centre, Durban, South Africa
1999 Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town
1998 ‘Kunst aus Südafrika’, Gallerie Seippel, Stuttgart, Germany 
1998 Newcastle Museum, United Kingdom
1997 Trienalle, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
1996 ‘Conjures’, First Gallery, Johannesburg
1991 ‘Discerning Eye’,The Mall Galleries, London
1991 Barcelona International Biennale, Spain
1990 Contemporary Art Society, Art Market, Smith Gallery, London 
1990 ‘Broadgate’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 
1989 ‘Art London/89’, London
1987-8 Third International Bienniale Print Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 
1985 Mirror Reflecting Darkly: Black Women’s Art, Brixton Art Collective, London.

 

Mirror Reflecting Darkly: Black Women’s Art.
18 June – 6 July, Brixton Art Gallery, London.
Unpag. (10 pp.) exhibiyion catalogue. Group exhibition of 16 Black women artists collective. Artists included: Brenda Patricia Agard, Zarina Bhimji, Jennifer Comrie, Novette Cummings, Valentina Emenyeoni, Carole Enahoro, Elisabeth Jackson, Lallitha Jawahirilal, Rita Keegan, Christine Luboga, Sue Macfarlane, Olusola Oyeleye, Betty Vaughan Richards, Enoyte Wanagho, and Paula Williams. 8vo, orange covers.
Source: Brixton 50. Brixton Art Gallery Archive 1983-86