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          Berni Searle

          This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob

          MODUS OPERANDI

          When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum of Art what her ‘Feminist Artist Statement’ was, she replied, “I don’t have a ‘feminist artist statement’ as such.

          Being a woman is only one aspect of who I am.”

          This aversion to being strictly categorized or placed into a specific box is apparent in the complex layers of Searle’s work; characterised by a desire to belong, yet not to be reduced to simply one thing or another.

          She is concerned with the complexities of identity and belonging in relation to language, race, colour, gender and the History of South Africa. Searle also produces work about land and rituals of the land, whether stomping on mountains of grape skins (Night Fall, 2006), or walking through volcanic ash and soil (Seeking Refuge, 2008).

          In ArtThrob’s 2000 Modus Operandi, it states:
          Using her own body as subject and point of departure, Searle experiments with th