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		<title>Young Cape Flats Artist Delivers Provocative “Necklace” for PPC Imaginarium Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Necklace. For some, an innocuous ornamental adornment comes to mind. For too many South Africans, on the other hand, the term is a tragic reminder of a brutal method of execution that haunts both the country’s political past and the mob justice of its present. &#160; Athlone-based emerging artist, Kenan Petersen, has drawn on his experience of growing up as a black South African youth in the wake of dire political struggle in order to create a provocative piece that interrogates the layered meanings in the word ‘Necklace’. Petersen explains: “The piece is to be worn in remembrance of those who passed in an act of defiance.” Petersen wants his ‘Necklace’ to be seen not as an icon of despair, but rather as a token of appreciation. “The Necklace symbolizes the rejection of racism in a time where students are being shot in the streets for asking for an education,” he adds. &#160; Petersen’s ‘Necklace’ is made entirely of concrete and hessian and is an expertly crafted scale replica of a tyre, made to resemble those typically used in lynchings. Contrary to what you might expect, the piece is not intended to be put on display, but rather to be [...]]]></description>
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