Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation:
Water as Metaphor for Identity
February 9–April 2, 2006
Tisch Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 9, 5:30–8:30 pm
Cross-Currents presents recent video installations by four international artists with ties to Africa: Zwelethu Mthethwa, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Moataz Nasr, and Berni Searle. In each work, the amorphous quality of water is explored as a metaphor for
shifting notions of identity, migration, and memory—of fluidity and instability, of spiritual rebirth, of violence, and of
traumatic loss of life. Water conceptually speaks to the invisible currents that drive the dissolution of familiar categories of
race, nation, and identity, and the dilution and loss of cultural heritage—all central issues today in contemporary post-
colonial art and theory.
Zwelethu Mthethwa
(b. 1960, Durban, South Africa; resides Cape Town, South Africa
Crossings, three-channel digital video
projection, 2003/re-mastered 2005
IngridMwangiRobertHutter
(b. 1975, Nairobi, Kenya; resides Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany)
Down by the River, video projection, light object, red soil with text, 2001
Moataz Nasr
(b. 1961, Alexandria, Egypt; resides Cairo, Egypt)
Crossings, video
projection, 2001
Berni Searle
(b. 1964, Cape Town, South Africa; resides Cape Town, South Africa
About to Forget , three-channel digital video
projection, 2005
Cross-Currents is co-curated by Pamela Allara, associate professor of contemporary art
at Brandeis University, Peter Probst, associate professor of african art history and visual culture at Tufts University, and Amy Ingrid Schlegel, director of
the galleries and collections at Tufts.
Public Events and Programs:
Thursday, February 9 at 5:00pm
Dialogue between Cross-Currents artist Ingrid Mwangi, and Tufts professor of English Christina Sharpe
This program is co-sponsored by: the Goethe Institute of Boston, the Tufts Africa in the New World Program, the Art History
Department, and the Political Science Department.
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