Tag Archives: South Africa

Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Ponte City, for Art Practical

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Larissa Archer

“It was a place where the wave crashed inwards upon itself, with the seething violence of delayed hope. It was Africa coming back, but with nowhere yet to go…. It was 54 floors of people in between other places.”—Denis Hirson, … Continue reading →

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South Africa in Apartheid and After at SFMOMA, Art Practical

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Larissa Archer

“More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.”—J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace. South Africa in Apartheid and After, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is a photographic investigation of the troubled … Continue reading →

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