Carla Liesching
Good Hope

Exhibition Details

Named by the Portuguese in their Age of Discovery, The Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, was a pivotal location at the height of the British Empire due to its position at the mid-point along the Spice Route, and later as a base for flows of capital from East to West. The Cape is now an epicentre for anti-colonial resistance movements, and also the place of birth of artist Carla Liesching whose work brings together layers of documentary prose, personal essay, and found photographic material. Her sources range from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, and magazines, to contemporary newspapers and family albums, and aim to offer both an intimate and critical examination of White supremacist settler-colonialism in the present. A research that questions ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, codifying, and preserving.