Episode 15 – Berni Searle
In episode 15, writer and curator Enuma Okoro speaks with South African artist Berni Searle (b. 1964, Cape Town, South Africa, where she lives and works) about the layered languages of the body, memory, and perception. Working across photography, video, and sculpture, Searle explores how narratives are constructed and sustained through history, identity, and place, often against the backdrop of colonialism, apartheid, and their afterlives.
“I don’t think art alone can change the world,” she says, “but it has a role to play.” Using her own body as a point of departure, she develops works that move between presence and...