Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Snow White
Berni Searle’s powerful photographic and moving image works explore how the social and political transmit to the body, particularly in relation to her upbringing in Apartheid-era South Africa. This two-screen installation shows the artist from different angles as white flour and water cascade onto her skin, then kneading the flour and water into dough. Snow White defies linear interpretation and is a poetic meditation on race, the self and feminine labour.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 27082
Creation/Production
SEARLE, Berni
Date: 2001
Acquisition
Gift: DWT
Given by The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Material
Film
Location
In store
Categories
Ffilm/fideo/DVD | Film/video/DVD Cyfryngau newydd | New media Celf Gain | Fine Art Cysyniadol | Conceptual Benyw noeth, Menyw noeth | Female nude Merched yn y gwaith | Women at work Hunaniaeth pobl ddu | Black identity Ffilm a Fideo | Film and Video CADP content CADP random Artist Benywaidd | Woman Artist Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st CenturyComments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.