Slowing what refuses to rest
Artwork details
- Artist
- Mary Sibande
- Title
- Slowing what refuses to rest
- Date
- 2026
- Medium
- Monotype
- Image
- 61 x 71.7 cm
- Sheet
- 75.5 x 85.8 cm
- Status
- Available
- Price
- Price on request
Mary Sibande (b. 1982) is a contemporary South African artist working across a variety of mediums, from sculpture to photography and printmaking. Her work primarily explores how to reclaim the black female body in post-colonial and post-apartheid South Africa. Her work often portrays the artist’s alter-ego “Sophie”, a dreamer exploring worlds previously denied to her. Sophie is based upon Sibande herself, as well as the women in Sibande’s family, however, she is also a symbolic figure addressing many topics that remain relevant today, including blackness, femininity, labour and post-coloniality.
