![]() Rather than considering it as a weakness, she sees subjectivity as a great strength, provided that one is aware of it. Shadi elucidates and affirms that her work relates to her own individual perspective, and draws its power from it. Central to Shadi’s work is the question of perspective: recognizing that we all bring with us our own horizons of experience, deriving from our socialization and biography. Focusing on the predominantly Western historiography, she deploys artistic means to make visible the deliberately overlooked and repressed. Employing different media, Shadi addresses issues of institutional violence, patriarchal and colonial strategies of exclusion and erasure but also highlights resistant subjective narratives. In her work, it is the marginalized that Shadi puts centre stage, negotiating bodies discriminated against in racist, sexist or classist ways, along with the experiences inscribed in them. We are delighted to be able to introduce Lerato Shadi’s first monograph. SAVVY Journal was founded by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung in 2010. ![]() This project is a cooperation between Archive Books and SAVVY Contemporary – supported by the Italian Council (9th Edition, 2020), a program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Read more on the SAVVY Contemporary Website As a collaboration between Archive Books and SAVVY Contemporary, we have been gathering and inviting people to curate and produce four special issues of the SAVVY Journal to address the restitution of colonial loot, the (im)possibility of repairing the crimes of Italian and European colonisation, as well as to reflect upon contemporary daily struggles of communities and individuals against structural racism in Italy and beyond. It addresses the specific context of Italy and its colonial histories as they reverberate in the present. THE RESTITUTION OF DIGNITY is an international bilingual editorial project and a series of four printed and online issues of the SAVVY Journal investigating focusing on restitution, reparation, and repair. They give us tools to think with about the ‘contemporary’ in meaningful ways, enabling us to ask important questions of culture and power. Ndikung allows us to step into the visions and the lived forms of knowledge that inform his curatorial practice.Īs we collectively emerge from a stillness that made it impossible to look away from the harm caused by social infrastructures we once deemed necessary, these essays are more urgent than ever. The book is an exercise in learning to reimagine: bodies, land, knowledge, memory, song. It opens with the question: If only some leaves could speak? And in the journey that follows, we encounter many such possibilities – that leave us asking questions of the boundaries we place around the things we are allowed to think, the knowledge we call knowledge, and the questions we permit ourselves to ask. An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale comprises abstractions, subversions and poetic ruminations, housed within essays that engage with the lives and practices of over 30 artists.
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