SX Portfolios | 53

Face Up

Roshini Kempadoo

Khan 1

Sharlene Khan

Nanan 1

Wendy Nanan

Roshini Kempadoo

Roshini Kempadoo has been active in documenting Caribbean communities, events, rights issues, and individuals in the UK and the Caribbean. She was instrumental in setting up Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers in the late 1980s, and worked as a documentary photographer for Format Picture Agency (1983 – 2003). Her photography and artworks are created using montage, layering, narration and interactive techniques of production. Her recent work as includes photographs and screen-based interactive art installations that fictionalise Caribbean archive material, objects, and spaces.

Year 2015
Medium Screenshots from one short story (“Deirdre”)
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Title: "Face Up."

Sharlene Khan

Born in Durban in 1977, Sharlene Khan completed both a BA (Fine Arts) and MA (Fine Arts) at the University of Durban-Westville, before moving to Johannesburg to complete a second Masters degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work, as of 2008, has increasingly focused around issues of identity and family history. Her series What I look like, What I feel like features staged photographic portraits of the artist which portrays images of how she thinks others view her juxtaposed against images of how she views herself. These dualistic portrayals question images of the self and representations of otherness, complicating perceptions of contemporary urban womanhood, race, class and identity.

Year 2016
Medium Mixed media
Dimensions 29 x 37cm
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Title: "Family"

Year 2016
Medium Digital color video projection with sound
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Title: "Still from When the Moon Waxes Red IV"

Year 2016
Medium Digital color photograph
Dimensions 61 x 91 cm
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Title: "Drowning Durga VI" Photographed by Nicola Gear.

Year 2016
Medium Digital color photograph
Dimensions 61 x 91 cm
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Title: "Drowning Durga X" Photographed by Nicola Gear.

Wendy Nanan

Born in 1955, Wendy Nanan is an artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Much of her work focuses on the multi-racial aspects of Trinidadian society, often featuring images of religious figures and post-colonial symbolism. Nanan has exhibited in Paris, France; London, England; Washington DC and Kentucky, USA; Prince Edward Island and British Columbia, Canada; Johannesburg, South Africa; and the Dominican Republic.

Year 2016
Medium Photographs; personal collection
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Title: "A Work in Progress"