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Mary Sibande

South Africa

África do Sul

Mary Sibande is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. She creates painting and sculptures of in which she explores the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context. Her works celebrate the hard work, strength, love, hope, and imagination that carried so many black South African women – her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother included – through apartheid in South Africa.

 

A main feature in all of her works is a sculpture named Sophie. Sophie is molded after Sibande herself and is like her alter-ego. Sibande's sculpture draws energy from the long history of female domestic workers, during the apartheid and post-apartheid. The sculpture, Sophie, attempts to critique the long history of oppression in South Africa.

Mary Sibande é uma artista sul-africana, de Johannesburgo. Ela cria pinturas e esculturas, que exploram a construção de identidade no contexto pós colonial da África do Sul. Sua obra faz uma celebração ao trabalho duro, força, amor, esperança e imaginação, que conduziram muitas mulheres sul-africanas negras – incluindo sua mãe, avó e bisavó – através dos tempos do Apartheid na África do Sul.

Uma peça principal de seu trabalho é uma escultura chamada Sophie. Sophie é moldada através da própria Sibande e representa seu alter ego. A escultura de Sibande atrai energia da longa história das trabalhadoras domésticas durante o Apartheid e pós-Apartheid. A escultura Sophie é uma tentativa de crítica à longa história de opressão na Africa do Sul.

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