… she finds not her sum but her differences: a project in parts (2020)

Curated by Sara-Aimee Verity and Chloë Reid (featuring work by Francis Burger, Alannah Clamp, Robyn Cook, Terry Kurgan, Naadira Patel, Kundai Moyo, Jabu Nadia Newman, Lauren Van Gogh, Voltaface.Online) and installed into Gallery, Gallery in Johannesburg. Part exhibition, part practice-based research, some of the work arrived ready to exhibit, and some of the work (like my own) evolved inside the gallery’s spaces during the run of the show.  …she finds not her sum but her differences considered relationships between reading, correspondence, memory and invention.

My own work, which I called Secrets, started where my book Everyone is Present left off, in relation to new discoveries I had made (about the secrets alluded to at the heart of the book) after it was published. I worked with several photographs, some of my grandfather’s later diary entries, and film footage of my parents honeymoon (shot by my father). I experimented with more writing, an exhibition plan, a small film project perhaps?  In the end, this practise-based research in the gallery space generated 3 new essays (which came to me all in a rush, two years later) and which will comprise an epilogue when Everyone is Present is republished.