international listings

Jane Alexander
Frontier with Ghost, 1997. Pigment print on Cotton paper 69 x 95 cm.

'Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)'

Jane Alexander at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Jane Alexander’s hybrid mutants speak to the porous borders between humans and other forms of animal life. Alexander acts as a surveyor mapping the forces, interests, and passions at play in human behavior. Her sculptures, installations, and photomontages are firmly rooted in her South African experience. They also transcend their locality, revealing the disparity felt every day around the world between the rhetoric of peace and decorum and the human capacity for oppression and violence. Alexander’s body of work throws into relief the asymmetric relations and practices that preclude access for so many people to a free and dignified existence.

'Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)' is a major exhibition of works by important South African artist Jane Alexander and is organized by the Museum for African Art (MfAA), New York, and supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is guest curated by Pep Subirós.

11 August - 04 November

more international listings

'Nous'
James Webb and Ninar Esber
at Galerie Imane Fares

This exhibition by Ninar Esber and James Webb introduces different forms of disobedience that tend to thwart the systems of societal domination. The defiance these two artists address towards the underlying censorship within the moral and technologic
SEE MORE

Tweet
'Someone Else's Country'
Jo Ractliffe
at Peabody Essex Museum

Photographer Jo Ractliffe (b. 1961) has spent the better part of the last decade photographing the effects of the prolonged civil war in Angola (1975-2002), both in the country itself and in her native South Africa. From the capital city of Luanda to
SEE MORE

Tweet
'Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive'
Santu Mofokeng, Andrew Putter, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Candice Breitz and Zwelethu Mthethwa
at The Walther Collection Project Space

Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive A three-part exhibition series on photography from Southern Africa, Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive presents rarely before seen portraits, albums, cartes de visite, a
SEE MORE

Tweet