North West University
UNSETTLING THE SINGLE SOCIETY 6 April - 31 May 2022
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he NWU Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition co-curated by Amohelang Mohajane, Boitumelo Makousu. Nokukhanya Khumalo and Tsepang Bereng using the NWU Collection. The exhibition is inspired by the 2022 African Critical Inquiry Workshop (ACIP) titled Unsettling the Single Society. The workshop Unsettling the Single Society will challenge the myth that settler colonialism and the attendant idea of separate societies ended in 1994. By returning to Gluckman, it will encourage questions around how settler colonialism was and still is a structure of domination that continues into the present. The exhibition explores the themes of belonging and unbelonging; symbolic and material labour; land and landscape; structural and direct violence; and contested knowledge, themes that structure the historical and ongoing composition of our settler colonial world. Ballot, Elizabeth Laetitia, Nieu Bethesda (1988), 159,5cm x 122,5cm, Mixed Media
Dold, Mary Rose, Farm scene (1970), 45cm x 69 cm, Lithography i/vii
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