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Nelson Mandela famously said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you speak to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”
In a country with 11 official languages and countless other unofficial languages people are often forced to live in a world where they find themselves perpetually lost in translation.
An exhibition at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in Johannesburg,
Photographs in Our Mother Tongue, curated by Same Mdluli, showcases the works of more than two dozen prominent South African photographers from the bank’s corporate collection.
The exhibition asks if an image truly does speak 1,000 words or if the same linguistic barriers that divide so many, exist in an image as well. These questions are by no means simple to answer – the exhibition title perhaps provides a lens through which to address them.
‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny
10 May 2021 Hasan and Husain Essop’s Facing Giblah, 2010, inhabits the mode of self-portraiture, accounting for several photographs in this Standard Bank Gallery exhibition.
Former president Nelson Mandela famously said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you speak to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”
In a country with 11 official languages and countless more unofficial languages, people are often forced to live in a world in which they find themselves perpetually being lost in translation.
Four University of Cape Town (UCT) academics were awarded two UCT Creative Works Awards for 2020.
Nkule Mabaso and Associate Professor Nomusa Makhubu for their exhibition The stronger we become.
Associate Professor Nadia Davids and Professor Jay Pather were honoured for their production What Remains.
This is Mabaso and Associate Professor Makhubu’s first Creative Works Award, which recognises major art works, performances, productions, compositions and architectural designs produced by UCT staff. Mabaso is the curator of the Michaelis Galleries and Makhubu is a scholar of art history and visual culture, both in the Faculty of Humanities. The work encompasses painting, film, sketches, narrative and an accompanying book. They spoke with UCT News.