The Portrait is a performance by iQhiya, a collective of young black South African female artists based in Cape Town. In April 2017 the work was performed in Athens (at the Athens School of Fine Art – ASFA) as part of the exhibition documenta 14. An endurance and durational piece, that comprised the members of […]
We have chosen this image (sic) and historical date because of the significance of this moment, of women’s unity, and protest in our practice. We as an all-black-woman collective are responding to the erasure of black women who have had the strength to bear the burden of fighting for equal rights in South African history.