by Danielle Olivier | Jul 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
The diptych Fantôme Créole Series (Papillon, No 2) is taken from Isaac Julien’s film Fantôme Afrique (2005), a film the artist made in conversation with his earlier work True North (2004). Fantôme Afrique is set in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, a...
by Danielle Olivier | Jul 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Tammy Langtry, and I am a Curatorial Assistant at Zeitz MOCAA. Currently, we are all wondering how we can make sense of this world with its constantly shifting plates...
by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices, Uncategorised
Hello everyone, I’m Storm Janse Van Rensburg, Senior Curator at Zeitz MOCAA As I am writing this, South Africa has been 94 days in lockdown. I cannot recall when last I have been in one place for more than three months in a row. Time has gone by incredibly fast and...
by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we focus on Tunisian-born artist Mouna Karray’s series of photographs titled Noir (2013). In the series, we see a figure, staged in a...
by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Mandisa Ngqulana, and I am the Museum Educator at Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Arts Education. I got to thinking recently about Billie Holiday’s version of the song Strange...
