Leora Farber in collaboration with Strangelove, 2004-2005
Aloerosa
Inkjet print on archival paper
1m x 1m
Image courtesy of the artist.
Dis-location/Re-location: "Aloerosa"
Field Report: Cultural Politics, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 2005
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Leora Farber is a Johannesburg-based artist, and trained at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She currently works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Johannesburg.
Abstract:
This paper explores ways in which difference is grafted into/onto skin, with reference to a selected series of photographic prints. These prints form part of a larger body of artwork and an educational program and research project, titled Dis-location/Re-location. The project investigates personalized postcolonial identity through reference to colonialism, geographies, histories, political positions, and cultural affiliations. Artwork is used as a space within which to interrogate personal and collective relationships to South African British colonial history and its current personal and public residues of identity construction within the context of postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa. |
