Sue Williamson’s multimedia exhibition All Our Mothers, celebrates the strength of the extraordinary women who helped to bring this country to freedom, and examines the generation gap between these wise, iconic veterans of the struggle, and their granddaughters, the confident young born frees. The exhibition is currently on the Goodman Gallery.
Williamson’s multi-screen video installation There’s something I must tell you portrays six intense conversations in which the older women recall important moments of their histories and their lives, and the younger women respond, and present their own forthright views on living in South Africa right now. Stories of exile, of the women’s march, of imprisonment evoke the ultimate question: Was it all worth it?
Accompanying the video installation is a new series of more than twenty photographic portraits of women taken over a thirty year period.
The exhibition is dedicated to Amina Cachalia.
WHERE & WHEN: Goodman Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town until 15 September
