Alex Under Siege: 1,2

CCAC #: 0026
Artwork title: Alex Under Siege: 1,2
Artist(s): Kim Berman
Year made: 1986
Artwork type: Paper
Medium: Drypoint / Monoprint on paper
Framed dimensions (in mm): 1290 x 800
Artwork series: Alex Under Siege
Source: Donated by the artist
Year acquired: 2008
Installation type: Movable artwork
Location area: On private display
Signage:

The artist saw her role to bear witness to atrocities committed by the apartheid state. Berman was involved in smuggling banned images from the Afrapix photographic collective in South Africa to the anti-apartheid movement in exile, which inspired her own art-making.


CCAC 429068

Photographer: Unrecorded
Photo copyright: Consult with CCT curatorial team

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