The Rise and Fall of Apartheid exhibition evokes more than the spectacle of atrocities and banality of bureaucracy IN SA we don't see many blockbuster exhibitions that have toured two continents. We are generally too far off the map. Yet when the exhibition is about us and our history, there's an urgency and symbolism to its being seen at home.Maybe it is a symptom of our globalised age that local narratives come from foreign shores. Starting in 2012 at the International Centre of Photography in New York, The Rise and Fall of Apartheid has travelled to Munich and Milan before coming to Johannesburg, as its last stop. Put together by Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor and SA academic Rory Bester, the exhibition has had its share of backroom antics, with Bester withdrawing from the local run for "professional reasons" and Enwezor in a public spat with one of the featured photographers.It is always tempting to gossip about infighting and to point fingers about who has the right to say what...
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