SIMON SEJAKE
My Cow
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painting
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BIOGRAPHY
Simon Sejake’s work was featured as part of the exhibition Volatile Alliances: An international conspiracy, the international print exchange and exhibition for the Africus Johannesburg Biennale in 1995.
The exhibition was a celebration of South Africa’s re-entry into the international cultural arena and a dynamic cultural exchange between artists working in a variety of printmaking techniques. The vision of the initiative was to promote ongoing dialogues and exchanges between South Africans and artists of the world.
The exhibition catalogue is held at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts.
Kim Berman, co-founder of Artist Proof Studio writes: ‘We proposed the Volatile Alliances theme as part of the education program, leading to South Africa’s first international Johannesburg Biennale in 1995. The biennale took place in Newtown and gave South African artists an international platform for the first time due to former cultural sanctions against apartheid. Volatile Alliances was a theme that explored and challenged various aspects of South African history and the experience of racial segregation. The collaborative project merged identities of white university students and township-based artists through dynamic creative practices. Students pieced together composites of their portraits to find unlikely alliances.’