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born 1971 South Africa

Siemon Allen (born 1971 in Durban, South Africa) is a South African installation artist known for large-scale "collection projects" using mass-produced artifacts — postage stamps, newspapers, records, and trading cards — to interrogate South African national identity and branding. He represented South Africa at the 2011 Venice Biennale and is a visiting professor in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

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To be honest, I can't recall. I think I have always lived in the present, and currently I feel like each moment generates the next. This is probably how I lived then.

I try to approach any given project with an attitude of detached research. I want the social critique that inevitably arises out my work to operate subtly and to reflect what I see as the contradictory and complex nature of South African identity.

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