Tracey Rose, renegade South African artist: understanding her 30 years of outrage
WHEN an artist is welcomed into the monumental interiors of a structure such as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa for a retrospective of their work, it suggests the levels of recognition they enjoy. The gallery, crafted from old dockyard silos in Cape Town, South Africa, opened in 2017. It is built to have such a pedigree; a solid foundation for African artists to gain global visibility and scrutiny. Author SANYA OSHA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Tracey Rose is a South African multimedia artist whose practice spans performance, film and video…