Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
It started off as a reaction to my silencing. I had written an opinion piece in a South African art magazine critiquing the lack of racial transformation in the visual arts field in South Africa. Practically overnight I went from up-and-coming artist to art world pariah, non-existent as the White monied habitus closed ranks. What had I expected? That they would sing my praises when I opened my mouth? Over the next two years I produced What I look like, What I feel like in which I presented comparative images, which tried to communicate the contradictions of public-private personae: my own feelings of feeling victimised, hurt and angry set against public perceptions of me as a radical, an activist, an angry black woman - none of these meant in a positive way.[2]
Repository Citation
Khan, Sharlene. "I Make Art - Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1–16. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol15/iss1/7