Siona O'Connell

Curator
Lecturer/Doctoral Candidate
Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town

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Siona O’Connell is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She studied Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT majoring in photography.  Her area of focus is looking at the family album of the oppressed in an attempt to re-imagine notions of justice and freedom.  With a passion for the camera, she has curated and participated in several photographic and visual art  exhibitions, including "Shared Legacies: The Alfred Duggan Cronin and Edward C. Curtis Photographs," and "The Freedom Box Project" between the U.S. and South Africa.  She was awarded a TRP Fellowship at Brown University and is a BIARI (Brown International Advanced Research Institutes) alumnus.

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A Matter of Obscurity:
Imagining the Spectacular