BB remains concerned with observing and
creating possible historical narratives
through public and private customs.
Sometimes these customs are noted,
at other times they go unnoticed.
Mostly invisible, they insert themselves into history.
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BB is a South African artist living in London and Cape Town.
Her work forms a series of complex visual fragments realized through
object making, installation, film and documented performance.
Inheriting a legacy of implication, growing up amidst the catastrophe of Apartheid
South Africa finds BB confounded by colonial and hegemonic systems
that create zones of friction,
disbelief,
ambiguity,
absence,
separation
and forgetting,
not to mention a psycho-geographical sense of loss.
Survival within inadequate narratives such as these requires re-invention.
To this end BB researches formally and experientially elements of fiction
and non-fiction present and invented in the unpublished history of her
family, within borrowed and stolen archives, and from lived experience.
She assembles these found visual fragments
as acts of memory construction and allegories
that converse with discourses that challenge
accepted narratives.
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Her work has been exhibited extensively but also at:
The Museum of African Art (NYC),
Centro des Artes Contemporanea (Burgos),
Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena),
Neue Berliner Kunstverein (Germany),
The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (Cape Town),
Bow Arts Centre (London),
The Wapping Project (London),
Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany)
and the South African National Gallery (Cape Town).