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Snow White

SEARLE, Berni

© Berni Searle/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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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

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 27082

Creation/Production

SEARLE, Berni
Date: 2001

Acquisition

Gift: DWT
Given by The Derek Williams Trust

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Material

Film

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Art And Design Movements
  • Arts And Entertainment
  • Black Identity
  • Conceptual
  • Female Nude
  • Film And Video
  • Film/Video/Dvd
  • Fine Art
  • Identity
  • Industry And Work
  • New Media
  • People
  • Searle, Berni
  • Woman Artist
  • Women At Work

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