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Africhi, 2006

  • Artist

    Nontsikelelo Veleko

  • Title

    Africhi

  • Date

    2006

  • Medium

    Pigment ink on paper

  • Dimensions

    Image: 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm) Frame: 23 3/4 × 20 × 1 5/8 in. (60.3 × 50.8 × 4.1 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition 1/10

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Anne + Joel Ehrenkranz

  • Object Number

    2016.39

Nontsikelelo Veleko uses both street and fashion photography styles to explore self-representation through aesthetics and the role of clothing as a means of deliberately challenging assumptions of identity. She is specifically focused on the construction of Black identity through urban fashion styles in post-apartheid South Africa. A slight departure from her usual practice in street photography, Africhi is part of the larger series “Chinese/Japanese,” in which the artist (pictured) plays with her own identity by using makeup to further represent the ways people are marginalized and perceived as the “Other.”


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Artworks

Africhi, 2006

  • Artist

    Nontsikelelo Veleko

  • Title

    Africhi

  • Date

    2006

  • Medium

    Pigment ink on paper

  • Dimensions

    Image: 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm) Frame: 23 3/4 × 20 × 1 5/8 in. (60.3 × 50.8 × 4.1 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition 1/10

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Anne + Joel Ehrenkranz

  • Object Number

    2016.39

Nontsikelelo Veleko uses both street and fashion photography styles to explore self-representation through aesthetics and the role of clothing as a means of deliberately challenging assumptions of identity. She is specifically focused on the construction of Black identity through urban fashion styles in post-apartheid South Africa. A slight departure from her usual practice in street photography, Africhi is part of the larger series “Chinese/Japanese,” in which the artist (pictured) plays with her own identity by using makeup to further represent the ways people are marginalized and perceived as the “Other.”


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