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Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams

Mary Sibande, I Put A Spell On Me, 2009, Archival Digital Print, 90 x 60 cm. Copyright of the artist and SMAC Gallery 

Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams

Presented by Somerset House in partnership with 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

In her first solo exhibition in the UK, South African artist Mary Sibande presents photographic and sculptural works that explore the power of the imagination and righteous anger in shaping post-colonial identity in South Africa. For Sibande, the body, particularly the way in which it is clothed, is the site where history and its legacies can be contested and redressed. The works on display centre on the artist’s own body, used as a vessel to pay homage to generations of women in her family who worked as domestic labourers and with which she seeks to empower her own, post-apartheid generation. The exhibition follows the journey of Sibande’s alter-ego protagonist, Sophie, as she transitions through time, colour and form, between what has been and what could be.

Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 1LA
United Kingdom

+44 (0)20 7845 4600
visitor@somersethouse.org.uk
www.somersethouse.org.uk

SMAC
The Palms, 145 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
Cape Town, South Africa

+21 (0)21 461 1029
info@smacgallery.com
wwww.smacgallery.com

Selected Exhibitors

Nando’s

Thread: Presenting cultural connections

Sakhile&Me

Sulger-Buel Gallery

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art

50 Golborne

Galleria Anna Marra

Lawrie Shabibi

1-54 EXHIBITORS 1-54 ONLINE ONLY
  • 50 Golborne
  • Addis Fine Art
  • AFRONOVA GALLERY
  • AGorgi Gallery
  • Catinca Tabacaru Gallery
  • Circle Art Gallery
  • Claire Oliver Gallery
  • Ed Cross Fine Art
  • espace d’art contemporain 14N 61W
  • Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
  • Galerie Ernst Hilger
  • Gallery 1957
  • Gallery Nosco
  • Guns & Rain
  • HUBERTY & BREYNE GALLERY
  • Jack Bell Gallery
  • James Cohan
  • Kalashnikovv Gallery
  • Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
  • L’Atelier 21
  • Lawrie Shabibi
  • Loft Art Gallery
  • Luce Gallery
  • MAGNIN–A
  • Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art
  • Nil Gallery
  • October Gallery
  • Primo Marella Gallery
  • Sakhile&Me
  • Selma Feriani Gallery
  • SMAC
  • SMITH
  • SMO Contemporary Art
  • Sulger-Buel Gallery
  • Tabari Art Space
  • TAFETA
  • The Hole
  • Tiwani Contemporary
  • UBUNTU Art Gallery
  • Vigo Gallery
  • WHATIFTHEWORLD
  • Yossi Milo Gallery
  • 1-54 Lounge: Blue Cloth
  • Aïda Muluneh: Water Life
  • Atelier le Grand Village: Reviving the Art of Stone Lithography
  • C& Artist’s Editions: Kapwani Kiwanga
  • Galleria Anna Marra
  • Kiluanji Kia Henda: The Fortress
  • Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams
  • Mindy Solomon Gallery
  • Nando’s
  • Studio Kameni
  • Thread: Presenting cultural connections
  • Versant Sud: Leikun Nahusenay

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