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South African Fashion and Identity

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Made Visible: Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity is an exhibition presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition surveyed seven contemporary South African artists working in fashion, photography, video, performance, and sculpture. Their prolific aims in self-fashioning historiographies that were once subject to erasure encapsulate the rich myriad of hybrid identities in contemporary South Africa.

Denis Mwaura on the relation between South African fashion and identity
Made Visible: Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity, installation view of  exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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