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11 June 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Photo Courtesy of artists and the Johannes Stegmann Gallery.
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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.
MEGAN JOHNS, Battleground, Tobacco, charcoal dust, plaster of paris and resin, 93.5 x 50 x 7.5 cm
JACOBETH SELINGA, Linda, Installation: Found bed, wool and thread, 257 x 196 x 91 cm
POLOKO MOHANOE, Prayer for rain, Gouache on Fabriano, 66 x 72.8 cm
SEBOTSE SELAMULELA, In my image (Coronavirus head), Clay, 35 x 40 x 60 cm
WILLIAM SHAER, Creator, Deconstructed chair, koat wood and Imbura wood, 100 x 75 x 45 cm
Johannes Stegmann Gallery
Interior of the Johannes Stegmann Gallery
Fulbright scholar spends sabbatical at the UFS
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Prof. Josephine Allen, Associate professor of Policy Analysis and Management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University in the United States of America, and holder of a Fulbright Scholarship, will spend her sabbatical at the University of the Free State (UFS) and the University of Fort Hare. She will establish a research network of academics for discussing research, policy and strategies in the areas of gender equality, environmental sustainability, and HIV and Aids. She will mainly work in the Faculty of the Humanities and with the Centre for Health Systems Research & Development. At a contact session with her were, from the left: Prof. Engela Pretorius (Vice-Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS), Dr Aldo Stroebel (Head: Internationalisation at the UFS), and Prof. Allen.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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