Everard Read will showcase the work of both internationally recognised artists and emerging talent who share a commitment to contemporary story-telling and mastery of their craft. These artists seek to discern meaning in the world through their work, as well as encourage reflection, contemplation, wonder – and humour.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Nicola Bailey, Nic Bladen, Ricky Dyaloyi, Jeanne Hoffman, Thonton Kabeya, Lady Skollie, Gerhard Marx, John Meyer, Nigel Mullins, Caryn Scrimgeour, Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi, Mary Sibande, Andrzej Urbanski, Barbara Wildenboer
MARY SIBANDE
Mary Sibande has been shortlisted for The Her Art Prize: an international reference award for Women Artists in partnership with Marie Claire and Boucheron
She has also been selected as one of only 20 artists to feature in the ‘Reparation/Repair’ themed curation of the fair, under Alexia Fabre, Deputy Director of the Centre Pompidou Francilien in Massy. Fabre explores contemporary creation through the lens of ‘repair’, a word that encompasses a territory whose meanings are multifaceted and vary depending on the artist, culture, and time period. By weaving connections between the past, present, and future, ‘Repair’ aims to recompose fragments and pieces, to heal wounds, whether physical or symbolic. It evokes both the silences and injustices of history and the desire to project this newly recomposed “whole” into the future. Repair, in effect, contains the idea of restoring oneself, a history, a reality that once was.
