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The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣT), Athens, have requested the loan of 2 artworks belonging to the permanent collections of the JAG, for a major museum retrospective of the artist Penelope Anne (Penny) Siopis for the loan period of 1 April 2024 to 30 November 2024. This exhibition is planned to take place from 11 May 2024 to 27 October 2024.
Born in South Africa in 1953 to Greek parents Siopis came to prominence in the early 1980s and 1990s with her feminist and history paintings, both of which were exemplary for their socially engaged stance in relation to both women’s rights and the resistance against apartheid. In the era after South African national liberation, her interdisciplinary practice has explored the persistence and fragility of memory, notions of truth and the complex entanglements of personal and collective histories.
Working in a wide range of materials Siopis has explored the politics of the body, grief and shame, collective history, and, more recently the relationship between the human and the non-human within the context of climate change.
In the process she has established herself as one of the most important artistic voices on the African continent and beyond, and has become an important point of reference for artists of a younger generation. EMΣT is proud to be able to present the work of the artist in its entirety for the first time.
As part of the legal requirements for international loans, the JAG is required to obtain permission to temporarily export artworks for loans and are therefore required to approach SAHRA to obtain a permit allowing any artworks to travel overseas on a temporary basis.
The JAG would therefore like to proceed with obtaining the necessary export documents to allow for a temporary export of the 2 artworks to travel to Athens for the Penny Siopis retrospective at the EMΣT.
Born in South Africa in 1953 to Greek parents Siopis came to prominence in the early 1980s and 1990s with her feminist and history paintings, both of which were exemplary for their socially engaged stance in relation to both women’s rights and the resistance against apartheid. In the era after South African national liberation, her interdisciplinary practice has explored the persistence and fragility of memory, notions of truth and the complex entanglements of personal and collective histories.
Working in a wide range of materials Siopis has explored the politics of the body, grief and shame, collective history, and, more recently the relationship between the human and the non-human within the context of climate change.
In the process she has established herself as one of the most important artistic voices on the African continent and beyond, and has become an important point of reference for artists of a younger generation. EMΣT is proud to be able to present the work of the artist in its entirety for the first time.
As part of the legal requirements for international loans, the JAG is required to obtain permission to temporarily export artworks for loans and are therefore required to approach SAHRA to obtain a permit allowing any artworks to travel overseas on a temporary basis.
The JAG would therefore like to proceed with obtaining the necessary export documents to allow for a temporary export of the 2 artworks to travel to Athens for the Penny Siopis retrospective at the EMΣT.
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