The Enlightened Man

baobabavenue:

‘they don’t make them like they used to’ par Mary Sibande

Mary Sibande jeune artiste sud-africaine née en 1982. À travers la peinture et la sculpture, elle explore la construction de l’identité dans un contexte post-colonial en Afrique du Sud, mais aussi critique les représentations stéréotypées de la femme noire.

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heliosrex:

Gender is, thus, a construction that regularly conceals its genesis. The tacit collective agreement to perform, produce, and sustain discrete and polar genders as cultural fictions is obscured by the credibility of its own production. The authors of gender become entranced by their own fictions whereby the construction compels one’s belief in its necessity and naturalness.