Judy A. Seidman
American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa
Maseru: The Certainty of Their Defeat Drives Them to Massacre
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Judy A. Seidman
American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa1983
Maseru: The Certainty of Their Defeat Drives Them to Massacre
Judy A. Seidman American, born 1951, active in Botswana and South Africa →Medu Art Ensembleprint
Date
1983
Medium
Screenprint on white wove paper
Dimensions
61 × 43 cm (24 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Artworkers Retirement Society
Just before daybreak on December 9, 1982, South African Defense Force (SADF) officers crossed the border into Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, to raid homes where members of the African National Congress were staying. The SADF killed 42 people, including 30 South Africans wrongly accused of being terrorists.
Judy Seidman modeled this poster’s drawing of bullet holes and an outraged crowd after newspaper photographs documenting the aftermath of the attacks. Among the rarest of Medu’s posters, this work was never mass produced or distributed because of unresolved disputes within the collective about the ambiguity of the figures’ hand gestures.
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