On Either Side (Traces)
2005 · Inkjet print
39 1/4 × 79" (99.7 × 200.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Berni Searle
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Berni Searle is a South African artist working in photography, video, and installation who uses her own body as a site of inquiry into race, gender, and belonging in post-apartheid contexts. Since the 1990s, she has constructed layered compositions that interrogate identity, displacement, and the colonial archive through a sustained formal and conceptual rigor. Her practice engages the relationship between the personal and the historical, treating the body as both document and act of resistance.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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