Raél Jero Salley
Biographic Data
| ID | 130335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raél Jero Salley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raél Jero |
| FAMILY NAME | Salley |
| SIGNATURE | SALLEY R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visions, writings and walls
It is not easy to define where, for Kemang Wa Lehulere, the making of art begins and ends. Wa Lehulere’s artworks suggest an attitude toward looking focused on less developed aspects in contemporary art criticism and art history. The artworks perform this task by insisting on the attention and involvement of the viewer in ways that make artistic production and viewer reception a potently intertwined and productive place of attention. This article…
Remembrance
Remembrance is the title of group of photographic artworks by Hasan and Husain Essop. Made in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the artworks picture people and places, buildings and landscapes. At first look, the action within the frames is straightforward. The photographs present ancient and modern religious sites in digitally produced, staged scenarios. However, there is an unseen complexity to these composite images that are made of hundreds…
The Changing Now of Things
All newly produced art is of its moment, and of its time, but things are not what they used to be. It is apparent that in an aftermath of modernity, art is now made with a widespread (yet not universal) sense that currency and contingency is all there is in the world, and maybe all that there will ever be. Such issues appear behind failures of universalism and the absence of historical guarantees. Recent artworks respond with provocative anticipa…
Zanele Muholi's Elements of Survival
South African Zanele Muholi’s photographs directly address resistance and tension between individual and community. Specifically, Muholi refers to the lives and loves of people who are black and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI), aiming her project toward establishing and preserving “black queer visibility.” In the process, Muholi produces photographic images that refer to—and critically reconsider— longstanding visual tra…
Romare Bearden
Zanele Muholi's Elements of Survival
South African Zanele Muholi’s photographs directly address resistance and tension between individual and community. Specifically, Muholi refers to the lives and loves of people who are black and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI), aiming her project toward establishing and preserving “black queer visibility.” In the process, Muholi produces photographic images that refer to—and critically reconsider— longstanding visual tra…
Romare Bearden
Zanele Muholi's Elements of Survival
South African Zanele Muholi’s photographs directly address resistance and tension between individual and community. Specifically, Muholi refers to the lives and loves of people who are black and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI), aiming her project toward establishing and preserving “black queer visibility.” In the process, Muholi produces photographic images that refer to—and critically reconsider— longstanding visual tra…
The Changing Now of Things
All newly produced art is of its moment, and of its time, but things are not what they used to be. It is apparent that in an aftermath of modernity, art is now made with a widespread (yet not universal) sense that currency and contingency is all there is in the world, and maybe all that there will ever be. Such issues appear behind failures of universalism and the absence of historical guarantees. Recent artworks respond with provocative anticipa…
Remembrance
Remembrance is the title of group of photographic artworks by Hasan and Husain Essop. Made in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the artworks picture people and places, buildings and landscapes. At first look, the action within the frames is straightforward. The photographs present ancient and modern religious sites in digitally produced, staged scenarios. However, there is an unseen complexity to these composite images that are made of hundreds…
Visions, writings and walls
It is not easy to define where, for Kemang Wa Lehulere, the making of art begins and ends. Wa Lehulere’s artworks suggest an attitude toward looking focused on less developed aspects in contemporary art criticism and art history. The artworks perform this task by insisting on the attention and involvement of the viewer in ways that make artistic production and viewer reception a potently intertwined and productive place of attention. This article…
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)