In her new solo exhibition headed for the Grahamstown Arts Festival and titled 'The purple shall govern', Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art Mary Sibande draws inspiration from a specific incident in South Africa's history where, in the late 1980s, people were marching for equality in Cape Town. During the march, the police sprayed everyone with a water cannon laced with purple dye to enable them to identify and arrest anti-apartheid protestors. This act motivated Mary's interest in the … [Read more...] about The Purple shall govern

