Liminal Identities in the Global South

The Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) is pleased to present the second of three exhibitions that forms part of our research theme of Female Identities in the Global South. Titled Liminal Identities in the Global South, the exhibition explores ideas of hybridity and resistance in the artistic practices of seminal women artists from Latin America, alongside artists from the MENA region, the African diaspora and South Africa. The exhibition considers heterogeneous forms of expression across art, architecture and music, from the 1960s to the present. Given the impact of COVID-19, the pandemic body forms a second curatorial thread running through the exhibition. The pandemic has placed many of us in a state of limbo or liminality, so that we are caught between a pre-Covid-19 world and one in which we imagine a better future. 

The exhibition is divided into five areas: Prelude, Requiem, Movements I, II and III, each conceptualised according to a musical tempo, either moderate, fast or slow, denoting a time-based experience of the exhibition. 

Featured artists:
Jane Alexander (South Africa)
Lina Bo Bardi (Italy/Brazil)
Lygia Clark (Brazil)
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag (Sudan)
Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada/France)
Ana Mendieta (Cuba/US)
Lygia Pape (Brazil)
Berni Searle (South Africa)
Sumayya Vally/Counterspace (South Africa)

A virtual tour of the exhibition is available on the JCAF website.