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The Medicine Chest

Hoard

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Title

Hoard

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Description

"The chest was featured in a work titled 'Hoard', for which Bloch sculpted in clay the objects in the UCT collection as well as ones from the 11th century Mapungubwe collection (housed at the University of Pretoria). She painted these sculpted objects gold and presented them in museum display cases, drawing attention to the arbitrary nature of objects’ value and to the possibility that historically loaded items can be accidentally overlooked and misevaluated (Bloch in Honigman 2014: online)" (Liebenberg 2021: 82 - 84).

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Joanne Bloch

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Creator

Joanne Bloch See all items with this value

Date Created

2015

Source

South African Pavillion, ,56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

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Type

Artwork

Item sets

99_LBNNIN001
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