Exhibit S, Ode to Saartjie Baartman by a Black South African Woman
Exhibit S, Ode to Saartjie Baartman by a black South African woman’ is a poetic performance art piece inspired by misrepresention, art and the story of a woman. Saartjie Baartman was from a khoikhoi ethnic group in the Eastern Cape, born exactly 200 years before Antamu, in 1789.
She lived to be only 24 , after a life of seemingly never-ending struggles. She was bought as a showpiece by an Englishman and smuggled to England never to set foot on her home soil again. This is her story fused with Antamu’s and told through, speech, skin, and movement.
She lived to be only 24 , after a life of seemingly never-ending struggles. She was bought as a showpiece by an Englishman and smuggled to England never to set foot on her home soil again. This is her story fused with Antamu’s and told through, speech, skin, and movement.