Carol Kaufmann, tel. Until 26 August The basis of the installation is formed by stitched 'sheets of skin' from 20 randomly selected boxes of Windward Island bananas. Artist Shelley Sacks traced each box back to its origin in the Caribbean and recorded the voices of the growers. Kathy Grundlingh tel. Tea will be served.
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Contact Fatima, tel. In this era, indigenous subjects usually struggled to retain their dignity and composure in the exploitative lens of the European traveller, tourist, scientist and commercial photographer. In instances where the sitter's humanity survived the racial prejudices and technology, the image often transcends its role as a historical record and can be seen as a provocative and poignant work of art. The exhibition contextualizes the practice of photography in these regions during this period and reveals the intensity of those troubled encounters. It reveals an evocative human portrait of a time of rapid change in Africa.