While foregrounding the way we perceive
black female bodies within contemporary culture, Self draws on personal experiences to address issues pertaining to race, sex, and gender.
Strongly identifying as a dancer, she seeks to complicate the boundaries of dance and the place of
black female bodies within the form.
Shown for the first in the UK, Tschabalala Self's vibrant canvases explore the fantasies surrounding
the Black female body within contemporary culture.
Not exact matches
My friend however disagreed with me, citing there are physical attributes that make us who we are (
black, white, male,
female, etc....) and by being transplanted into that
body we take on those characteristics and thus the
body holds a key piece of our «soul» or personality that effects any brain
within.
Thematically Siwani's work interrogates the patriarchal framing of the
black female body and
black female experience
within a South African context.