Voices of Women exhibition opens at Phansi Museum

PHANSI Museum is celebrating Women’s Day on Tuesday 9 August with the opening of an exhibition from 10am to 2pm.

The Museum has mounted a selection of embroidered, appliqued and beaded artworks from the Voices of Women Collection which are on loan to the museum by the Voices of Women Museum, which holds in trust the memories of women in embroidered cloth.

The clothes represent the personal stories of almost 3 000 women from the nine provinces in South Africa. They represent a number of indigenous languages and are translated into English.

The Voices of Women (Amazwi Abesifazane) is a decade-long project that began as the brainchild of artist, Andries Botha who, after attending the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) hearings in South Africa, developed a creative methodology as a means for women’s memory to be recounted and held in trust as part of the memory archive of South Africa for future posterity.

Curator of the project, Coral Bijoux, said: “The Voices of Women vision is to take on the challenge of becoming an educational and exhibition space and eventually, a centre of excellence for research on women’s creative work in South Africa. The Voices of Women mission is to protect and conserve the Collection and Archive and to build on this decade-long work. It holds this work in substance and partnership with respect to all the women it represents for the benefit of all.”

The public is invited to visit the Museum on Tuesday to join in on celebrating all the women of South Africa.

Contact Sharon Crampton on admin@phansi.com or 031 206 2889.