Inhlamvu Yamehlo (The gaze) from The Self Portrait Project (2007/2013)
Nomusa Makhubu, South African, born 1984
2014
Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper
AP
Image: 13 7/16 × 18 3/8 in. (34.1 × 46.6 cm)
Sheet: 16 9/16 × 23 7/16 in. (42.1 × 59.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2014.58.10
Geography
Place Made: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Africa
Photograph
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, in graphite: NOMUSA MAKHUBU; inscribed, lower center, in graphite: IMHLAMVU YAMEHLO (2013); inscribed, lower right, in graphite: AP
Course History
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
First Year Student Enrichment Program, John Pfister, Summer 2021
First Year Student Enrichment Program – Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Colleen Lannon, Summer 2023
First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Mokhtar Bouba, Summer 2023
Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023
Writing 2.05, Why Write, Anyway?, Erkki Mackey, Fall 2023
Writing 5.24, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023
Writing 5.25, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, and Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22, 2023–May 25, 2024.
Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art, Friends Gallery/Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 16-March 13, 2016.
Provenance
Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa; sold to present collection, 2014.
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