“The Showroom presents a major new commission by London-based artist Uriel Orlow, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics at large through film, photography, installation and sound.
Through the work of other artists, this multi-vocal archive opens up dialogues between South Africa and other parts of the continent. David Goldblatt’s iconic photograph of the remnant of a hedge planted by the Dutch in 1660 to keep the indigenous Khoikhoi out of the first European settlement in South Africa acts as a botanical premonition to the marks left in the landscape by the hundred year war of resistance by the Xhosa against the Boer and British (1779-1879) depicted in Cedric Nunn’s photographs…”