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born 1964 South Africa

Berni Searle (born 7 July 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist who works with photography, video, and film to produce lens-based installations that stage narratives connected to history, identity, memory, and place. Often politically and socially engaged, her work also draws on universal emotions associated with vulnerability, loss and beauty.

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I don’t have a ‘feminist artist statement’ as such. Being a woman is only one aspect of who I am.

The self is explored as an ongoing process of construction in time and place. The presence and absence of the body in the work points to the idea that one's identity is not static, and constantly in a state of flux.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Berni Searle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.