Positive Living: Art & AIDS in SA exhibition at Birkbeck University

Evening Standard | Ben Norum:

Positive Living: Art and AIDS in South Africa is an ongoing exhibition at Birkbeck University’s Peltz Gallery. It focuses particularly on the struggle for self-representation by those affected by the virus during the worst period of AIDS denialism under former President Thabo Mbeki from 1999 to 2003. The exhibition includes photo-documentary work aimed at alerting the international community, fine artists’ responses to the pandemic and initiatives from within the hardest hit communities in South Africa itself… Read more

Image: “Keiskamma Guernica” (detail), by Veronica Nkosazana Betani and Nosiphiwo Magdswana of the Keiskamma Art Project, Eastern Cape, 2015. Photograph by Robert Hofmeyr.