ARTISTS
Everlyn Nicodemus: Without History
“If you are denied a history, then you have to write it,” says Everlyn Nicodemus. This ethos underpins Without History, the artist’s first solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery, presented in Cape Town in partnership with Richard Saltoun Gallery, and a rare presentation of her work on the African continent since her early exhibitions in Tanzania in the 1980s. Bringing together works from the late 20th century, the exhibition foregrounds a practice that has long moved between painting, research and writing. Shaped by personal experience of post-traumatic stress disorder and grief, as well as sustained research into African art in relation to human suffering and societal responsibility, Nicodemus’ work is driven by an insistence on making visible what dominant histories have neglected, excluded or refused to name.
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