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Sue Williamson is a South African artist internationally recognized for her work. She is represented in many public collections including the Tate Modern, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and recently the Centre Pompidou- Global(e) Resistance exhibition from 2 July till 4 January 2021.
Sue Williamson uses installation, photography and video. She is part of the pioneering generation of South African artists who began working in the 1970s on the social change of apartheid South Africa.
In this first solo exhibition in France of Sue Williamson, Galerie Dominique Fiat is showing a array of work representative of the devastating effect on South Africans. This body of work, covering several decades of her work, focuses on issues relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, slavery, and immigration.
Push the Limits is an exploration of the violation of borders, especially those of thought and aims to investigate how art places itself at the limit to shift the framework of thinking, of perception and discourse continuously in order to introduce new elements.
Opens 7 September 2020
Work included: Other Cities, Other Voices 2009- 2019
Large scale photographic prints
Voices from the Cities 2020
A new augmented reality work in three episodes specially commissioned for Push the Limits.
Centre Pompidou
29 July 2020- 4 January 2021
The Global(e) Resistance exhibition running at Centre Pompidou displays over sixty artists from Africa, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America for a dive into resistance: resistance against racism, resistance against sexism, resistance against capitalism, despotism. This committed exhibition runs from July 29, 2020 to January 4, 2021.
Heroes: Principles of African Greatness
NMAFA Smithsonian, Washington, United States
'Features artworks from the National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection that tell the story of key heroic principles
and personages in Africa’s arts and history'.
Opened November 2019
Work included: Cold Turkey: Stories of Truth and Reconciliation 1997 Mixed media photographic wall piece
I AM: Contemporary Women Artists of Africa,
NMAFA Smithsonian, Washington, United States
'With experimental and sophisticated use of diverse media, the featured artists offer insightful and visually stunning approaches to matters of community, faith, the environment, politics, colonial encounters, racism, identity, and more'.
Original closing date: July 26, 2020.
Work included: The Last Supper Revisited 1993 Mixed media installation
Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora
Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection
Perez Art Museum, Miami
The exhibition highlights artists whose works embody the possibilities and complexities of our contemporary moment. Allied with Power showcases a wide range of practices and thematics, including abstraction, representation, politics, spirituality, and race.
April opening postponed.
Work included:
Truth Games- Limpho Hani- No remorse- Gaye Derby Lewis
Mixed media photographic wall piece
'Great Movements of Feeling is a multi-disciplinary project that explores emotion as a cognitive and bodily force. The exhibition considers emotion through personal and historical lenses; as a flowing drive that occurs between people, concepts and objects'.
Work included:
It's a pleasure to meet you 2016.
Two-channel video installation.
National exhibition tour postponed
Sue Williamson: Life and Work
Monograph
Publisher | SKIRA (Italy)
Purchase this monograph online here: skira.net
New Monograph Now Available
Sue Williamson: Life and Work edited by Mark Gevissor is now available for purchase from Goodman Gallery (Cape Town & Johannesburg); The Book Lounge (Cape Town); Clarkes (Cape Town), or on special request from book stores - distributed by Thames & Hudson.
The 256 page publication covers over four decades of Sue Williamson's work and includes a foreword by Chika Okeke-Agulu and an introduction by Mark Gevissor.
© 2016 copyright Sue Williamson