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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Claudette Schreuders: Doubles

Feb 24 – Apr 2, 2022
513 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

The South African artist Claudette Schreuders was born in 1973 in Pretoria, during the apartheid era. She creates carved wooden figures, often haunting, which reveal her search for an “African” identity. In this exhibition, Schreuders explores the concept of the mirrored self, the interior twin, the doppelgänger. Some of her sculpted twosomes are conjoined, some are just touching, others are touched with eros. Taken together they cast light on the many dimensions of doubleness. —Elena Clavarino

Claudette Schreuders, “First Person,” 2021 © Claudette Schreuders. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.