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| Unidentified Photographer, [Part of the crowd near the Drill Hall on the
opening day of the Treason Trial], December 19, 1956. Times Media
Collection, Museum Africa, Johannesburg. All images courtesy, ICP, NY. |
Okwui Enwezor (the director of the just-concluded
La Triennale, Paris, whose day Job is director,
Haus der Kunst,
Munich) has organized a landmark exhibition on the history, memory and
legacies of Apartheid in South African. This exhibition, which features
about 550 objects/images/films by nearly 70 photographers, artists and
filmmakers will, as has rarely happened before, occupy the entire
museum. So, this is a big exhibition; which is not surprising, given how
so much apartheid occupied the world's imagination and shaped a country
for half a century. Moreover, I expect it to be another signature
exhibition by Enwezor who has a penchant for spectacular, complex and
rigorously conceived shows. I will be posting photos from the opening of
the exhibition, plus an interview with Okwui in the coming days. So
stay tuned.
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| Jurgen Schadeberg, The 29 ANC Women's League women are being
arrested by the police for demonstrating against the permit laws, which
prohibited them from entering townships without a permit, and were later
kept in Boksburg Prison for 14 days, 26th August 1952. Courtesy the artist. |
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| Graeme Williams, Right Wing. South Africa, Pretoria, 1990. Courtesy the artist. © Graeme Williams. |
