BODY MAPS were created as part of the Memory Box Project
founded by the University of Cape Town. The Memory Box is a pan-African
project working with HIV+ women that helps express and contemplate individual
experiences through writing, painting and other media.
The Project's participants have created Body Maps, life-size images that trace
the bodies, visualize the virus and articulate each personal history. The Body
Maps are testament to the strength and endurance of the women and document
their suffering and loss due to the virus. However, the overwhelming message
of the works is one of hope. The Bambanani women and their beautiful Body Maps
are exemplary symbols of optimism in the international fight against AIDS,
a disease that is striking South Africa so viciously.
The Body Maps are part of the art collection which is on display in the Constitutional
Court. They consist of 14 works which were created through an art-making workshop.
TAXI Art Projects is promoting the awareness of these works and the uplifting
creativity of the individuals who have created worthy artworks.
The Body Maps prints are available as limited editions on paper or canvas.
Proceeds from sales of work are distributed equally among the Bambanani Women's
Group and can also be seen at DAVID KRUT ARTS RESOURCE
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BAMBANANI 'To support each other, to lend hands'
We Bambanani women are making this book because we want to teach people living
with HIV how to live with HIV. And to also teach those who are not living
with it how to survive. And to let people know that we positive people
are getting a treatment to help us live longer. We want to tell the whole world
that we are many and we are working. We are healthy. Also we want our stories
to be published to the other countries. For those who are positive not
to
lose hope, maybe someday we will get a cure. We want people outside to
know that it is not the end of the world. You can live as many years as you
want.
South Africa is in the throes of a new struggle brought on by the AIDS
pandemic. Thirteen remarkable women step out of the shadows to tell their
personal
stories, in words paintings and photographs, with frankness and humour.
The book, Long Life...positive HIV stories by DR. JONATHAN MORGAN and THE
BAMBANANI WOMEN’S GROUP, is published by Double Storey, 2003 and
is supported by Medicins Sans Frontieres, The University of Cape Town,
Aids
and Society Research Unit Centre for Social Sience Research, Memory Box
Project and Other-Wise Media.
The book is available from:
DAVID KRUT PUBLISHING
140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood tel 011 880 4242 fax 011 880 6368 dkrut@icon.co.za
www.davidkrutpublishing.com
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