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Apr 2023
26m 51s

Ep 2: Mary Sibande - Self and Solidarity

Sharjah Art Foundation
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How can materials and forms associated with racial oppression be subverted to oppose their original meaning? Can art help us reimagine difficult pasts in ways that allows us to heal in the present? To find out, listen this episode where Mary Sibande is in conversation with SB15 curator Hoor Al Qasimi. At Sharjah, Sibande installed a work called A Reverse ... Show More
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