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'Albus: Facing the Melanin Gaze'
Justin Dingwall at R&VWA collaborative project between the artist and Thando Hopa from Johannesburg, South Africa, resulting in a body of work called 'Albus', which explores the counter-aesthetics of Albinism via the typically mediated images of idealized beauty.
After a successful portrait commission from a women's interest magazine of Miss Hopa, who os a legal advisor and an activist fighting to change the perceptions of people who suffer form Albinism, they continued to create a body of work called 'Albus'.
Startling and stark, the images project a strong sense of agency from Miss Hopa, in contract to the routine portrayal of the subjective figure of the 'other-other' as subjugated or downtrodden.
18 February 2014 - 18 March 2014
