Details

Title

Untitled, from Apartheid Scrolls series

Artist/Maker

Rudzani Nemasetoni (South African, born 1962)

Date

1994

Medium

Photoetching

Dimensions

6 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches

Credit

Anonymous gift

Accession #

2005.339.2

On View

Currently not on view

In this series of etchings, Rudzani Nemasetoni repurposes his father’s identification passbook—the official document that both facilitated and restricted movement for Black South Africans from rural areas to urban centers. In using this most visible of oppressive objects of the apartheid system, Nemasetoni explores the intersection of personal and collective memories. This print even includes the image of his father’s face.

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