Mary Sibande

This catalogue features full-color illustrations of works and exhibitions by the artist, with an essay by Philip Barcio.

Mary Sibande (b. 1982, South Africa) is a sculptor, painter, and installation artist whose work not only interrogates the current intersections of race, gender, and labor in South Africa, it actively rewrites her own family’s legacy of forced domestic work imposed by the then-Apartheid state. Through photography and sculpture, Sibande employs the human form as a vehicle for a focused critique of stereotypical depictions of women, particularly Black women in South Africa. For Sibande, the body is the site where history is contested and where Sibande’s own fantasies can play out.

Published by Kavi Gupta, 2021, softcover, 96 pages, 7 x 5 inches.