Johannesburg-based artist Mary Sibande is taking her latest exhibition, Let me tell you about Red to the Durban Art Gallery this week.
Sibande’s Let Me Tell You About Red will be open from Friday, 03 June 2022 at The Durban Art Gallery located on the second floor of City Hall, Anton Lembede Street, Central Durban. It will be open from 9am to 3.30pm during the week, and 9am to 12pm on Saturdays.
Curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, Sibande’s phenomenal and memorable large-scale installations personify the colours of bruising – blue, purple, and more recently red, as demonstrated through her alter-ego, Sophie, a life-size, personalized mannequin channeling Sibande and made in her likeness.
Born in 1982 in Barberton, South Africa, Sibande graduated in 2007 from the University of Johannesburg, where she lives and works. In 2013 she won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, part of the prize for which was a touring exhibition across South Africa. Sibande’s work has been exhibited in the South African pavilion of the Venice Biennale (2010); the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town (2010); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro (2011); the Lyon Biennale (2013); The British Museum (2016); and The MET Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018).
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