Local Art • 1997 • III
Okwui Enwezor publishes his controversial essay Reframing the Black Subject: Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Art. The ensuing debate leads to the publication Grey Areas: Representation, Identity and Politics in Contemporary South African Art, edited by Candice Breitz and Brenda Atkinson and published in 1999.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.