Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele (South African, 1948-1985)
Judy A. Seidman (American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa)
No to Resettlement!
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Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele (South African, 1948-1985)
Judy A. Seidman (American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa)1981
No to Resettlement!
Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele (South African, 1948-1985) Judy A. Seidman (American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa) →Medu Art Ensembleprint
Date
1981
Medium
Screenprint in black and tan on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 28.5 × 27.5 cm (11 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Artworkers Retirement Society
Based on a woodcut by South African artist Mpikayipheli Figlan, this screenprint was jointly conceived by Medu artists Thamsanqa Mnyele and Judy Seidman. The poster shows black families being removed from their homes by gun-wielding men, while the text below the drawing names towns and areas where such displacements occurred in the early 1980s.
Affordable housing and equitable land ownership continue to be subjects of intense, emotional scrutiny in post-apartheid South Africa. Current debates center on proposed constitutional amendments to permit the government to claim and redistribute white-owned lands as a means of reducing socioeconomic inequality.
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