The first UK exhibition of contemporary South African photography from the last ten years will be shown at the V&A this spring. Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography will feature over 150 works by some of the most exciting and inventive photographers living and working in South Africa today. Exhibition open 12 April – 17 July 2011.
The exhibition will present the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa. The works on display respond to the country’s powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics. The photographs depict people within their individual, family and community lives, practicing religious customs, observing social rituals, wearing street fashion or existing on the fringes of society. All the photographers question what it is to be human at this time in South Africa.
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