Angela de Jesus

Angela de Jesus (born 1982 in South Africa) is a South African visual artist and curator living and working in Bloemfontein. de Jesus uses her Portuguese heritage and experience working in a takeaway shop to investigate intercultural exchange and visual perception. She uses hidden CCTV cameras as materials in her own video creations.

Quotes

"Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition – Open for Art | Cape Town Partnership" (2011)

"Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition – Open for Art | Cape Town Partnership". Archived from the original on 21 September 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

• If contemporary art is defined as ‘art that is created now’, then the Spier Contemporary is the visual and aural barometer of what it is like to live in South Africa in 2010.

• Populism and opportunism are the order of the day and all manner of insincerities abound – none of which bring us any closer to finding ways to solve the real problems of the day – poverty, hunger, unemployment, our lack of solidarity, community and ethics, the need for better systems of accountability and governance.

• It seems to me however that its greatest contribution is in giving us art as another language to understand and express ourselves, especially during this time when the conventional political discourse is severely limited. And it’s not all serious, thank goodness. Humour, irony and sly jokes abound in many of the works that cast a jaundiced eye on our contemporary leaders and problems.