Angel Mthembo by Ian van Coller

Hot Shot Ian van Coller's series Interior Relations will be on view from September 3-27, 2009, at Portland's Blue Sky Gallery. The series pictures women wearing their favorite clothing posed inside the homes that they are employed to clean.

van Coller writes:

In this immediate post-Apartheid era, there remain few employment opportunities for many black South African women aside from domestic work. And with a fifty-percent unemployment rate, domestic service fills a critical need for women seeking to support their families. My intent is to capture some of the complexities that all South Africans face in creating and asserting post-Apartheid identities in the face of dramatic economic and cultural realities.

Ian van Coller | Interior Relations
September 3-27, 2009
Artist Reception, September 3rd, 6-9pm
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon