curated by Kazeem Adeleke

More Than A Thousand Words focuses on three contemporary South African artists who, through their works, reflect on the traumatic experiences of women in apartheid and postapartheid South Africa. Strategically using photography (portraiture and self-portraiture), Zwelethu Mthethwa, Tracey Rose, and Berni Searle engage the complex history of colonialism in South Africa, addressing prevalent issues of race, religion, and history.

In addition to More Than A Thousand Words, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will also present five other exhibitions curated by students in the Center's graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Organized by the students as part of the requirement for the master's degree, the five other exhibitions—To What End?; Split: Women in Dislocation; Rest Assured; This Is Us; Subscribe: Recent Art in Print—will be on view from May 11 to 25, 2003.