Presented in a small, antiquated theater complete with red drapery, cheesy velour fold-down seats and a proscenium screen, the installation should provide a nostalgic cinematic escape. Williamson edits an online magazine devoted to contemporary art in South Africa, called Art Throb, that provides comprehensive local and international listings, reviews, columns and links. It is quite beautifully designed. The majority of essays in Grey Areas are by white South African women artists and curators, and these are their personal responses to specific arguments leveled against them by African writers living abroad. The most influential and controversial critique is by the Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, who is currently a curator at the Art Institute of Chicago and who was artistic director of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennial.
Feminist discourse spars off with post-apartheid theory.
S.A. It's in paperback. Enwezor analyzes the persistence of the colonial relationship in post-apartheid art production, specifically in the representation of the black body. For everything seems haunted by this paradoxical affirmation of origin and disavowal of past histories. All rights reserved.