Author: Themba Tsotsi
Ruth Ige
The works are captured with flowing feminine impact. This emphasized femininity, playing with a dark hue of blue expresses and counters the traditional light and grandiose contexts that masculine depictions of the divine are depicted in the Western context.
Themba Tsotsi on the work of Ruth Ige
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Ravelle Pillay: History Hammered by Time
At the heart of this exhibition is the sense of history that is intimate and personal. It enabled the artist to extend these sentiments to discourse what is political without it enveloping what is delicate about personal history.
Themba Tsotsi about the work of Ravelle Pillay
Yinka Shonibare
Shonibare created an exhibition where he wanted to show the spiritual and universal function of the African aesthetic. He created a stylised collection of works that he sought to find an historic discourse for without losing the trace of the abstract and literal interaction with western influences.