Transitions
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
12 May – 22 August 2010
Transitions documents shifting male identity. This was the 7th showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage (2008).Transitions premiered at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's Transitions project.
Review by Michael O’Sullivan for The Washington Post (2010)
Review by Alix McKenna for California Literary Review (2010)
Review by A.M. Weaver for Art South Africa (2010)
Article by Professor Emerita Pamela Allara for NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art (2011)
Go to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art website
Voice of America news [Video 3 min 6 sec]
National Museum of African Art news release
Smithsonian Institution press release [PDF]
Go to 3SAI: A Rite of Passage page
Transitions book with essay Conversations on the Transience of Light by André Croucamp [PDF]
Transitions concept document [PDF]