Day Sale: Re/Presentation of the Figure
Timed Online Auction, 4 - 20 March 2024
Re/Presentation of the Figure
About the SessionAll human bodies are shaped, fashioned and deciphered according to the prevailing cultural, social, and political order which inform the notion of the human form within a particular society.
There is an enduring presence of body images in the history of art often with entrenched visual conventions. Figuration is a powerful conceptual thread linking historical, traditional, modernist, and contemporary art in Africa. Since the early 90s the practice of art and how the body is expressed, viewed, and received entered a new paradigm. Artists broke away from 20th century conventions, challenged boundaries and interrogated what it means to be within social, class, racial, sexual and gender paradigms and explored identity within these cultural contexts.
Re/Presentation of the Figure exemplifies this conceptual thread as modern and contemporary artists express the body though painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and woven images.
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signed, dated 2019 and inscribed with the title on the reverse
Notes
‘In my work, the sphere of painting and its vast history and conventions act as a stand-in for history and the world at large. From that specific vantage, I use painting to locate and build a space for myself within the gaps – both known and perceived – of this history as a subject and participant of the contemporary moment, specifically from the lens of my positionality as a Motswana working within and outside of home.
In my work I endeavor (sic) to make the specific ‘world-version’ I carry – informed by the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life, available data, personal frames of reference, the social and the cultural – visible through the incorporation of transmedia storytelling tools such as chroma key green screens and the visual language of comics; visualization schemes such as maps; as well as historically charged systems of representation into the practice of painting.’
—Thebe Phetogo
Sakhile&Me (2024) Thebe Phetogo, online, https://www.sakhileandme.com/artists/thebe-phetogo.htm, accessed 15 February 2024.
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