Erica de Greef
Biographic Data
| ID | 5456724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica de Greef |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | de Greef |
| SIGNATURE | DE GREEF E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uganda Cancer Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4152-528X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
By Way of the Fold
In 2023, the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) developed The Fold, a programme with three projects that traced fold words, fashions and concepts as ways of collating knowledges. In this article we follow The Fold’s projects as routes to practices of making, wearing, remembering, speaking and listening to unfold and voice (k)new fashion discourses and vernaculars. These practices are “new” to readers in the global north but largely “known”…
Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion
Confronting the Absence of Histories, Presence of Traumas and Beauty in Museum Africa, Johannesburg
Museum Africa is Johannesburg’s social and cultural history museum and holds within its collection the Bernberg Costumes & Textiles Collection; an extensive collection of predominantly white-owned European fashion objects with some 16,562 items dating from the 1800 s to the late 1900s, imported into South Africa or made locally. This article documents the continued enquiry between South African fashion designer and artist Wanda Lephoto, London-ba…
Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion
October 21 2021 Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion Erica de Greef, Erica de Greef Erica de Greef is codirector and cofounder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has lectured and practiced widely in the field of fashion curation and fashio…
Material Matters in Paintings at the End of an Era
The panel discussion “Material Matters in Paintings at the End of an Era” took place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in 2018 and considered the role of textiles in the painting exhibition curated by Tandazani Dhlakama, Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era. Panelists Anthony Bumhira, Jessica Hemmings and Hayden Proud, chaired by Erica de Greef, discussed the practical necessities of textile—and more broadly craft—materials used…
Did we say politics? When fashion and heritage are made to speak
Curating Fashion as Decolonial Practice
In this article, I discuss the curatorial moment in a museum that rendered a pair of embellished trousers in a new light, and what acts of giving space to an object and its story can do to rewrite a range of narratives, including global fashion histories, diverse cultural voices, museal collections and the extent of ongoing archival violence. I draw on a seminal South African fashion exhibition that I curated in 2019 at the Zeitz MOCAA museum, ti…
Fashion as a site for memory
This article aims to explore the complex curatorial approach of my exhibition titled ‘Clive Rundle About Memory’, held in Johannesburg, 24 June–24 July 2011. The exhibition resulted from investigations into notions of memory in the work of South African fashion designer Clive Rundle. Shown in an art gallery, the installation afforded Rundle’s work a context away from an aesthetic or material approach to the fashion exhibition, rather employing mo…
Curating Fashion as Decolonial Practice
In this article, I discuss the curatorial moment in a museum that rendered a pair of embellished trousers in a new light, and what acts of giving space to an object and its story can do to rewrite a range of narratives, including global fashion histories, diverse cultural voices, museal collections and the extent of ongoing archival violence. I draw on a seminal South African fashion exhibition that I curated in 2019 at the Zeitz MOCAA museum, ti…
Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion
October 21 2021 Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion Erica de Greef, Erica de Greef Erica de Greef is codirector and cofounder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has lectured and practiced widely in the field of fashion curation and fashio…
Fashion as a site for memory
This article aims to explore the complex curatorial approach of my exhibition titled ‘Clive Rundle About Memory’, held in Johannesburg, 24 June–24 July 2011. The exhibition resulted from investigations into notions of memory in the work of South African fashion designer Clive Rundle. Shown in an art gallery, the installation afforded Rundle’s work a context away from an aesthetic or material approach to the fashion exhibition, rather employing mo…
Did we say politics? When fashion and heritage are made to speak
Fashion as a site for memory
This article aims to explore the complex curatorial approach of my exhibition titled ‘Clive Rundle About Memory’, held in Johannesburg, 24 June–24 July 2011. The exhibition resulted from investigations into notions of memory in the work of South African fashion designer Clive Rundle. Shown in an art gallery, the installation afforded Rundle’s work a context away from an aesthetic or material approach to the fashion exhibition, rather employing mo…
Material Matters in Paintings at the End of an Era
The panel discussion “Material Matters in Paintings at the End of an Era” took place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in 2018 and considered the role of textiles in the painting exhibition curated by Tandazani Dhlakama, Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era. Panelists Anthony Bumhira, Jessica Hemmings and Hayden Proud, chaired by Erica de Greef, discussed the practical necessities of textile—and more broadly craft—materials used…
Did we say politics? When fashion and heritage are made to speak
Curating Fashion as Decolonial Practice
In this article, I discuss the curatorial moment in a museum that rendered a pair of embellished trousers in a new light, and what acts of giving space to an object and its story can do to rewrite a range of narratives, including global fashion histories, diverse cultural voices, museal collections and the extent of ongoing archival violence. I draw on a seminal South African fashion exhibition that I curated in 2019 at the Zeitz MOCAA museum, ti…
Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion
October 21 2021 Listening as a Radical Act Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion Erica de Greef, Erica de Greef Erica de Greef is codirector and cofounder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has lectured and practiced widely in the field of fashion curation and fashio…
Confronting the Absence of Histories, Presence of Traumas and Beauty in Museum Africa, Johannesburg
Museum Africa is Johannesburg’s social and cultural history museum and holds within its collection the Bernberg Costumes & Textiles Collection; an extensive collection of predominantly white-owned European fashion objects with some 16,562 items dating from the 1800 s to the late 1900s, imported into South Africa or made locally. This article documents the continued enquiry between South African fashion designer and artist Wanda Lephoto, London-ba…
Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion
By Way of the Fold
In 2023, the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) developed The Fold, a programme with three projects that traced fold words, fashions and concepts as ways of collating knowledges. In this article we follow The Fold’s projects as routes to practices of making, wearing, remembering, speaking and listening to unfold and voice (k)new fashion discourses and vernaculars. These practices are “new” to readers in the global north but largely “known”…
Art (7 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works)