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Mary Sibande

South African sculptor, painter and installation artist, born 1982, who stages her alter ego Sophie in colour-coded uniforms to rework her family's history of domestic labour under apartheid.

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Sophie stands eyes closed in a purple tendril-covered gown with a white cloth streaming from her head, purple roots writhing around her against a wall of purple ruching. — A Terrible Beauty is Born
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About Mary Sibande

South African sculptor, painter and installation artist, born 1982, who stages her alter ego Sophie in colour-coded uniforms to rework her family's history of domestic labour under apartheid.