Jo Ractliffe
Jo Ractliffe was born 1961 BirthCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Lives and works in HomeJohannesburg.
Categories: Multimedia Photography
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To explore her themes of a "revelation of absence", Johannesburg artist Jo Ractliffe draws on a range of photographic and art practices, including snapshot, documentary, forensic and studio photography, as well as installation video and projections…
"Photography is a very resistant and resisting medium to work with, a medium of non-disclosure. Despite this, we retain a certain belief in the truth of apearances; we conflate the real with its representation. I’m interested in that space of slippage between photography and the real, and in the notion of trace. But I’m also interested in the things that happen outside of the frame -the not so obvious, the furtive things that are not easily imagined."
Ractliffe has exhibited both locally and internationally, lectures at Wits University and is committed to the advocacy of interdisciplinary public art in Jozi’s inner city. She won the FNB Vita Art Prize in 1999 and is a nominee for the DaimlerChrysler Award for Photography…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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