ABSTRACT
These two statements reflect the motivations behind two particular South African art exhibitions created in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Their statements suggest that the TRC and artists’ responses to it are distinct, yet interdependent, processes. Fault Lines was a series of exhibitions and readings around “the Truth and Reconciliation moment” that explored the embedded and complicated themes of truth, memory, history, culpability, and narrative.1 Memórias íntimas marcas gathered responses specifically to the Angolan war experience, a story marginalized by the TRC’s publicly performed emphasis on apartheid-related human rights violations taking place within South Africa.
