A Conversation with ... South African Artist Christine Dixie on the Exhibition opening: "To Be King"
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- The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence has invited South African artist Christine Dixie to show her multimedia installation "To Be King" at Iwalewahaus. The artist based in Johannesburg set up her installation and celebrated the exhibition opening on Wednesday, 11 May 2022. The exhibition will run until the end of July. The interview was conducted by Nicole Klug.
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- A Conversation with ... South African Artist Christine Dixie on the Exhibition opening: "To Be King"
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- May 31, 2022
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- yes hello i'm here today at the ivaniba house with christine dixie an artist from south africa whom we've had the great pleasure of working with within the last one and a half weeks and hosting at the ibaliba house christine's work has regularly been exhibited in south africa the u.s and europe she's primarily a printmaker but her art also finds expression through films and elaborate installations such as the one you see behind me here at ibaliba house today welcome christine thank you christine with your work you challenge gender roles and the way in which they have been historically conditioned by society myths and image making how did you integrate feminist concerns uh within the to be king installation so the one um way that i did it was that i inact velazquez the painter and in one of the scenes i paint a mustache onto myself with a paint brush not a makeup brush with a paint brush paint in the starshine paint my heavy eyebrows on and obviously here i am a woman long grand hair and the the juxtaposition of the moustache and the eyebrows is kind of an ironic reference to the fact that i am not velasquez obviously um so that is the the one way that i kind of mark the fact that i'm a woman artist uh playing the role of a male artist velazquez um himself was very entranced with rubens who he completely admired and rubens's paintings are in the background of the las meninas painting so for my re-enactment i was thinking the one artist that i completely admire and would be my reubens is william cantridge so in the background i have two um references to william cambridge paintings another male artist obviously so here i am surrounded in fact by these male artists so that is a kind of ironic reference to the art world where predominantly male artists have had more success than female artists right the manifestation of the colonial history that is still evident in wakanda the eastern cape city where you're from today has compelled your preoccupation with europe's… Read the full text about 2,207 words
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