#MarySibande

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Mary Sibande, South Africa, b. 1982

They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, 2008

Archival Digital Print

41.1 × 27.4 in | 104.5 × 69.5 cm

Unknown Edition

#bornonthisday Mary Sibande (11 April 1982) is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. Her art consists of sculptures, paintings, photography, and design. Sibande uses these mediums and techniques to help depict the human form and explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context. In addition, Sibande focuses on using her work to show her personal experiences through Apartheid. Her art also attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of women, particularly black women. Via Wikipedia

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Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams, Terrace Rooms, Somerset House⠀

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[soul-junkee]

And now something I want to do 🙌🏿☺️ #artmuseum #marysibande (at Frist Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWOrRpLFQAs49FdQNgrVv6xpD5pVYxRJsSB0cE0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[supportblackart]

Kavi Gupta @kavigupta_ is thrilled to present a new sculptural installation by Mary Sibande @marysibande as part of ABMB’s prestigious, curated Kabinett Sector. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sibande’s work explores issues related to post-Apartheid South Africa. This new fiberglass and textile sculpture, titled The Domba Dance, invokes and acknowledges the evolution of Sibande’s iconic Sophie figure, now moving into her red phase. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #supportblackart #marysibande #artbasel #kavigupta #artbasel2019 #miamiartweek #saart https://www.instagram.com/p/B5rdoVpBfzv/?igshid=nxp33lcea1i2

[llemaoana]

#marysibande @marysibande #Repost @hyperallergic with @get_repost ・・・ It’s your last chance to check out the @metmuseum’s #LifeLike exhibition. Closes July 22! (📷 @hragv)

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❤️ @marysibande #marysibande (at Diaspora) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCyLdTLF5U8/?igshid=y8jv3epuxhni

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Mary Sibande - Post Apartheid Art

Mary Sibande is a multi-talented artist from Johannesburg. Born in 1982, the South African artist’s art consists of sculptures, photography, paintings, and design. With her creations, she depicts black South Africans in a postcolonial context. Her work often focuses on her own personal experiences and black women during apartheid. About Mary Sibande The artist was raised in apartheid South Africa by her grandmother. Her mother, grandmother and great grandmother were all domestic workers and inspired many of her works. Sibande initially wanted to be a fashion designer. Something that is very much present in all of her sculptures. She uses both fashion and design to tell a sad part of history beautifully.

Mary Sibande Sophie and her inspirations Sophie is Mary Sibande’s alter ego who tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa. A Reversed Retrogress, a tableau she created in 2013 are two mirror-image manikins with one dressed in blue and the other covered in with purple tassels. Both women look suspended in time. With this representation, she pays homage to the women in her family who were all maids from her great grandmother to her own mother. Black women were discriminated against and didn’t have a choice.  Sophie was given this name for some specific reason as mentioned by the artist. During apartheid, it was a must for black children to have Christian names. Sophie was inspired by her great grandmother. She explains how her masters didn’t learn her African name and decided to call her “Elsie”. With Sophie, Sibande wants this part of history to stay alive, so future generations would know. Changing colors To not be referred to as the artist who “makes Sophie stories about domestic workers in her family”, Sibande has to change her color scheme every four years. Living Memory (2011), female figures in teal combat trousers are inspired by her father who was a soldier but the manikin has a female body. This is because everything she knew of her father during her childhood was through her mother. She was only three when her parents separated. The young artist used to be angry with her father but later understood that he had no choice to join the army. Black men in Africa were taken away to work as miners or soldiers.

Living Memory (2011). Photo: Gallery MOMO Many of her other representations are of different colors. The use of purple represents the Purple Rain protest of 1989 in Cape Town. Anti-apartheid marchers were sprayed with purple dye so that they were visible and easier to arrest later on.  The untold part of history Mary Sibande’s art is very deep as it touches subjects that are very much taboo. Her works are also personal, which include members of her family that she holds close to her heart but also references the history of South Africa from the black’s perspective.  She tells the sad story in a happier way, knowing that it won’t take away what happened to black women in the South African past but still portray the painful truth. What people want to see will depend on the viewer, some may see violence but others can see her representation of women to be dancing and being happy.  Read the full article

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When Monday drags you out of your weekend and back to reality... 😅 Avatar sculpture by @marysibande . . . #marysibande #sculpture #avatar #postapartheid #southafrica #seams #southafricanartist #comtemporaryart #somersethouse #rootsystem #africanartist (at Somerset House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5SQz-LA-5V/?igshid=10uvza4p4dmhh

[suzylwade]

Mary Sibande 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. ‘Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams’ - Presented by ‘Somerset House’ in partnership with ‘1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair’, October 3, 2019 - January 5, 2020. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #marysibande #southafrica #artist #sophie #icameapartattheseams #postcolonialidentity #somersethouse #london #humanscalesculptures #empowerment #blackwomen (at Somerset House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3wRWB7AeZz/?igshid=ewejp3oyf5of

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In partnership with @somersethouse the 1-54 Special Projects will include the first solo UK exhibition of Mary Sibande (@marysibande ) 'I Came Apart at the Seams'. Presenting photographic and sculptural works, Sibande explores the power of the imagination and righteous anger in shaping post-colonial identity in South Africa. Following the journey of Sibande’s alter-ego, Sophie, as she transitions through time, colour and form, the artist looks at the body, and particularly the way in which it is clothed, exploring it as a site where history and its legacies can be contested and redressed. The exhibition will open concurrently to the fair and running through 5 January 2020. #154artfair #MarySibande Reposted from @154artfair https://www.instagram.com/p/B0xuBzOJNQq/?igshid=vdn876onb8no

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“They don’t make them@like they used to” Mary Sibande. Thanks @artxafrica and #marysibande. #superwoman #domesticworkers #superman #blue #africanartists #africanart https://www.instagram.com/p/B0xtyPYAjCo/?igshid=u3gul5tpq923

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@marysibande slays. #Repost @britishmuseum (@get_repost) ・・・ ‘Colour is important in South Africa – we make it important. Colour places you, colour tells where you are within the geography of South Africa. And when I thought of colour, I realised that I cannot ignore the incident that happened in 1989.’ Mary Sibande This 2013 work is called ‘A Reversed Retrogress: Scene 1 (The Purple Shall Govern)’. Sibande cast these figures from her body. The one in Victorian dress, called Sophie, refers to her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, who were maids in white South African households. The second figure, in purple, represents Sibande herself. The Purple Shall Govern relates to the statement ‘the people shall govern’, from the 1955 Freedom Charter and post-apartheid constitution. It also refers to the Purple Rain Protests of 1989, when protesters captured the police water cannon being used to spray them with purple dye and turned it on their assailants. Over the following days the slogan ‘the purple shall govern’ was painted on walls around Cape Town. Although a tension remains, Sibande is saying goodbye to Sophie, her past, and confronting the ‘purple’ present and future. See this incredible work in our #SouthAfricanArt exhibition, which is now open! (See the link in our bio for tickets) Sponsored by Betsy and Jack Ryan. Logistics partner IAG Cargo. Mary Sibande (b. 1982), A Reversed Retrogress: Scene 1 (The Purple Shall Govern). Mixed media, 2013. © Mary Sibande. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery MOMO. #modernart #MarySibande #purple #SouthAfrica #BritishMuseum #exhibition

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The art of @marysibande

Reposted from @legacybros

Women’s History Month: Mary Sibande

The work of South African artist Mary Sibande @marysibande tells the tale of her alter-ego Sophie, a domestic worker who finds refuge in dreams where she emancipates herself from the ghoulish realism of an ordinary existence, cleaning other people's homes.

Exploring the construction of identity within post-apartheid South Africa, Sibande's work probes the stereotypical contextualisation of the black female body.

By way of Sophie's mythical uniform, Sibande obliterates self-degrading notions of inferiority that could be inherent in her own family's history or by extension her socio-cultural background. She is the first in her family to achieve academically, henceforth true freedom. Her mother and grandmother both worked as domestic servants.

Poking at the power relationships between women, the art of Sibande also sheds new light on issues of race and gender. More so, it offers a counter-reference of significance to the colonial "slave & master" archetype. Her battle against injustice and ignorance through the medium of art is in itself a triumph over prejudice.

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Text by Joyce Bidouzo-Coudray for Another Africa

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Mary Sibande and Zanele Muholi are featured in this collage. I made this with happiness rainbows while thinking of a kind of vision board. I used the first colours that popped up on the online digital random colour pallet generator. I spent hours compiling and shuffling through images on the internet. I hope this brings you joy and optimism.

#blackrepresentation #representationmatters #blackwomensurf #vanlife #marysibande #zanelemuholi #bicycle #joy #jozi #sogangster #blueplanet #humunchi

[supportblackart]

@MarySibande, "Cry Havoc", 2014. 💜 Currently on display at @thearmoryshow 📸: @theladiig . . #supportblackart #marysibande #thearmoryshow #cryhavoc #blackart #contemporaryart #artlover #thearmoryshow2018 #southafrican #armoryweek #africanamazing #womenartists #nycartscene

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‘Cry Havoc’ by @marysibande 😍 #thearmoryshow #armoryshow #marysibande (at The Armory Show)