#1-4: Mary Sibande

This is the work of the fantastic South African photographer Mary Sibande. She's dealing with very real world issues, sometimes to do with domestic violence, sometimes to do with power imbalances in relation to gender roles in Africa or in South Africa. She conjures this figure of power, anger and resistance, and redemptive strength. In Mary Sibande's work, we see a translation of the known world into a site of richness and possibility, but also a site of resistance, of refusal, of rebellion against some of the imbalances of the status quo that we live within.