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11 June 2021 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Courtesy of artists and the Johannes Stegmann Gallery.

Liminality is an exhibition of first-, second- and third-year student’s work in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of the Free State (UFS). The works are from 2019 and 2020. Created during the hard lockdown of 2020, the artworks provide a glimpse of what students had to deal with and overcome during these times.
 
In a proposal for the exhibition, Angela de Jesus, Curator of the UFS Art Galleries, wrote: “The subtitle of the exhibition is ‘threshold, transition, transformation’ and it refers to the creative processes that students engaged with in these adverse circumstances resulting in a wide array of artworks in both traditional and adapted mediums.”

The exhibition speaks to our shared experiences of insecurity, fragility, and discord, and to the resourcefulness and immutability of creative expression.

The virtual exhibition runs until 2 July 2021.

The exhibition is also currently available for viewing at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Sasol Library, UFS Bloemfontein Campus. Monday - Friday  09:00 - 16:00.


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Prof. Van Coller elected to panel of the Humanities
2008-12-04

Prof. Hennie van Coller, Head of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the UFS, was recently elected to the consensus panel of the Humanities, under the guidance of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (Assaf). The panel will investigate the situation in the Humanities that resulted from the perception that it is experiencing crises worldwide. In certain circles it is not regarded as a science, remuneration systems within the Humanities compares poorly with other sectors and funding is difficult to obtain. This whilst issues pertaining to humanities are in the foreground in South Africa, such as the issues regarding the handling of Aids, crime, illiteracy, violence and unemployment.

The panel’s work will stretch over the next 18 months and a report will be handed to government. The panel of experts from across South Africa is under chairmanship of Prof. Jonathan Jansen, former dean at the University of Pretoria, and also includes among others two international experts.

 

 

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