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28.09.2022

"Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South" at the JCAF

25 October 2022 – 22 February 2023

No 1 Durris Road
Forest Town 2193
Johannesburg South Africa

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This October the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) announces Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South. The exhibition features the works of three seminal women artists, Frida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil and Irma Stern, together in South Africa and in Africa, for the first time.

Expounding on the lives and practices of these Modernist women artists – all of whom had careers that overlapped for a period of eleven years – the exhibition aims to reposition their contribution to the rewriting of art history through their pioneering artistic production. This is the third and final exhibition that concludes JCAF’s first research theme on Female Identities in the Global South.

The public will see a Frida Kahlo in South Africa for the very first time. They will also be introduced to the work of Modernist Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil and, from a completely fresh perspective, explore local artist Irma Stern – whose portrayal of black women, argues art historian LaNitra M. Berger, was central to her conception of modern art in South Africa.

Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South examines the constructions of
‘cosmopolitan’ and ‘indigenous’ identities through portraiture and self-portraiture. The exhibition contextualises the locations where the artists produced from at a particular point and provides an archive of their experiences, inspiration and collections during this time. It offers an intimate experience with an iconic artwork by each artist.

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