HOME AND AWAY

Exhibition curated for the Ifa Lethu Foundation to reach Durban in November.

For the last five years the Ifa Lethu Foundation has been instrumental in repatriating South African art that was produced during the apartheid years but which found its way overseas due to the fact that there was no market for the work of black South African artists in the country at the time.

The exhibition Home and Away: A Return To The South explores this previously lost artistic heritage alongside the Art Against Apartheid collection. The show examines the similarities and differences between works produced by South African artists experiencing the oppression of apartheid and those from beyond our shores who created works in support of the struggle. Although produced from different perspectives, the two collections are united in their focus on human rights.

The exhibition is running at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg where the historic nature of the space – once a prison, now the supreme symbol of justice in South Africa – will provide a highly appropriate context for the two collections.

The exhibition celebrates the reclaiming of our artistic heritage and the spirit of global co-operation inherent in both Ifa Lethu and Art Against Apartheid. It is presented in 2010 at a time when the global spotlight is on South Africa, in stark contrast to the isolation of the apartheid years.

The exhibition will come to the Durban Art Gallery in November.