From the outset of her career, Jane Alexander—born in 1959 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and reared in the thick of Apartheid—has created sculptures that contain, in their silent, tensely arranged forms, histories of human failures. Butcher Boys (1985–86), part of Alexander’s submission for her master’s degree at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand, was her public debut—and […]
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