- Venue
- NEW HALL GALLERY
- Starts
- Saturday, March 1, 2008
- Ends
- Monday, March 31, 2008
- Address
- New Hall, Cambridge CB3 0DF
- Location
- East England
Hamera and Hartley question how the child constructs identity, culture and history through her father. This show follows and continues their challenge to established art begun by ‘deconstructing' Damien Hirst' in their ‘m'OTHER ART' installation at St Peter's, Cambridge. Hamera says‘Uncertain, childhood memories are fictions constructed around my father and his diluted memories. . . In this exhibition I layer old photos into masks. My father's memory speaks through me. The ‘masking' images move backwards through memory in an excavation into issues of loss, identity, genealogy and the diaspora.Hartley says ‘I searched for my political identity by trying to understand my mother's history. Instead I uncovered my father's.'In this exhibition she collages photographs over drawings to take an ironic look at her family history in Southern Africa.
