Otherscapes JCAF: An other take
Otherscapes: Four Installations by Four South African Contemporary Artists features Siemon Allen, Wim Botha, Nicholas Hlobo and Sethembile Msezane
30 July 2023 - 00:00
In the days before it became a financial white elephant, national headache and relic of the pre-digital age, the South African Post Office wasn't just a vital node for communication, transport and delivery of items but a tool for the dissemination of propaganda. Nowhere was this more evident than in the choice of what the service chose to highlight about the country on the stamps it issued, which demonstrated to the world the image of itself that the nation wanted to project...
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