Images of Displacement is an exhibition resulting from the District Six Museum's 'Art in Public Places' program and workshops.
A group of young arts enthusiasts (The Giemba Collective) have interviewed former District Six residents to create art works using the techniques of wheatpaste, photography, collage and painting, video and sound.
In this exercise of co-creation and co-curation with Artist, Scott Eric Williams, the exhibition will show their works alongside art by established artists whose practice expands on the displacement of former District Six residents by putting it in context with forced migrations on the African continent. The exhibition also highlights the resulting Human Rights issues which are symptoms of displacement.
Exhibiting Artists:
Bronwyn Katz
Bulumko Mbete
Donovan Ward
Gabriel Sanson
Gary Frier
Jarrett Erasmus
Kristin Warries
Lizette Chirrime
Masixole Feni
Paul Grendon
Robyn Pretorius
Ronald Muchatuta
Rory Emmett
Monishia Schoeman
The Giemba Collective – (Images of Displacement curatorial collective)
ABOUT The District Six Museum's Images of Displacement workshops:
IMAGES OF DISPLACEMENT & HUMANITY is a series of workshops that will continue to expand the District Six Museums’ current programme of birthing inter-generational conversations about experiences with Apartheid and the many ways it helps us to explain the present. A MAJOR AIM of this project is to encourage and nurture the use of visual art as a learning strategy for activism. THE IDEA is for youth to translate stories contained in some of the many personal archives (tangible and intangible) of those who lived during apartheid into visual narratives using PHOTOGRAPHY as a tool for interpretation and working with archival photographs as a basis for storytelling. THE SPIRIT of the project is for participants to see connections between stories of Apartheid and current socio-economic and political struggles today.
Date: 21 March 2018
Time: 10:30am – 14:30pm
Venue: District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, 15 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
For more info contact mandy@districtsix.co.za
Exhibition entry is free of charge and runs for one month from date of opening
