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200			_aGILT _bBROCH _e[Exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, From February 16, 2023 until Octobre 29, 2023] _fMary Evans
210			_aAfrique du sud _cZeitz MOCAA _d2023
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330			_aThe title of the exhibition is a play on the words ‘gilt’ and ‘guilt’. While the former refers to something that resembles gold laid on a surface, the latter suggests the feeling of inadequacy and, in the context of the Black experience, what may be a consequence of surviving the historical wounds of slavery, colonialism, apartheid and even late-stage capitalism. A central motif of Evans’ decades-long practice is that of the life-sized silhouette. She assembles many silhouetted figures in a narrative form, which she calls ‘history paintings’. The large-scale works act as a type of glyph or coded visual language that counters difficult Black histories. The figures function as a familiar device to provide viewers with an entryway into the artist’s work. The scenes of light-brown shadows placed against monochromatic landscapes recall histories of colonial entanglement while facilitating a humanistic reading of the Black figure as every body. Her practice and choice of materials (paper and other disposables) gesture at the historical and contemporary ways in which the Black body has been treated — cheaply, shipped, broken, disposed of and feared.
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606			_aContemporary Art _xslavery _xcolonialism _xapartheid _xcapitalism _xsilhouettes _xhistory _xBlack histories _xmonochromatic _ySouth Africa _913571
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