The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, presents "Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art," which features 17 artists from South Africa working in diverse media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, painting, installation and video.

Recalling the past, looking toward the future, and touching upon religion, politics, art, and the poetics of the body, "Personal Affects" represents work by a new generation of South African artists who consider the recent history of social and political struggle in the aftermath of Apartheid.

"Personal Affects" includes newly commissioned and recently produced works by some of the most compelling contemporary visual and performing artists from South Africa selected by an international team of curators including; Laurie Ann Farrell, David Brodie, Churchill Madikida, Sophie Perryer and Liese van der Watt.

Moving beyond the confines of identity politics towards subtler investigations of agency and affect, this exhibition looks at works of art as the powerful and poetic expressions that artists leave behind. Participating artists are Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Churchill Madikida, Mustafa Maluka, Thando Mama, Samson Mudzunga, Jay Pather, Johannes Phokela, Robin Rhode, Claudette Schreuders, Berni Searle, Doreen Southwood, Clive van den Berg, Minnette Vári, Diane Victor and Sandile Zulu.

"Person Affects" is on view at Honolulu's Contemporary Museum until May 7, 2006.




All images courtesy The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu