Time and Again

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 - 5:30pm
Wits University Press and WiSER have the pleasure of inviting you
to the launch of a new book which looks at the career of prominent South African artist Penny Siopis:

PENNY SIOPIS
TIME AND AGAIN
edited by Gerrit Olivier

With her earliest work, Penny Siopis established herself as one of the most talented and challenging visual artists in and beyond South Africa. Penny Siopis: Time and Again engages in a variety of ways with her work of the past thirty-five years.

A discussion of this book and the artist’s work will take place between the artist and Gerrit Olivier, the editor, as well as artist and writer Terry Kurgan and Director of WiSER, Sarah Nuttall.

A multimedia retrospective exhibition of the work of Penny Siopis
will be shown at Wits Art Museum (WAM), during April-June 2015.

WHEN: Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 17h30 for 18h00
WHERE: Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER)
6th floor, Richard Ward Building, Wits University, East Campus, Braamfontein
The Richard Ward Building is immediately adjacent to Senate House. Parking at Origins Centre.
 
RSVP: by 9 February to info.witspress@wits.ac.za

Info about the book:
http://witspress.co.za/catalogue/penny-siopis/
Contributors to the book include Achille Mbembe, TJ Demos, Jennifer Law, Njabulo Ndebele, Sarah Nuttall,
Griselda Pollock and Colin Richards. A conversation between Siopis and William Kentridge
illuminates the trajectory of their own work and that of South African art.
ISBN 978 1 86814695 6 | Full colour art book

WISER Research Theme: 
African Futures