Summer Flowers, representing South Africa at the 15th Dakar Biennale, is an homage to author Bessie Head
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.For the record: Conceptual artist Dada Khanyisa rebuilt a record player for the installation Summer Flowers by Cape Town architect and artist Ilze Wolff, which is on at the 15th Dakar Biennale in Senegal.
She is explaining the roots of the video and sound exhibition, which is installed as a sitting room with select publications and a collection of pressed flowers. The gathering-space and flower archive is an essential part of the connection to the author, who spent much of her time working with other volunteers in Serowe as a gardener and as part of Boiteko, a communal gardening project.
“I was intrigued by this three-room house, the dwelling where Head spent the evenings writing her novels and many letters to friends ,” Wolff wrote in a 2020 article forWhile the house appeared similar in style to the government-issue NE 51/9 township house that Wolff was familiar with growing up in apartheid South Africa, there was a marked departure in the arrangement of the rooms.
Head planted an elaborate garden with seeds which she collected and experimented with. There were two rows of gooseberry bushes at the entrance to the yard and also pawpaw trees.“I really started thinking about the garden and the house as a practice of freedom, a practice of liberation,” Wolff tells me.
“Of course you can — if your projects are around highlighting liberation and freedom, you know? So, she’s a huge inspiration for that practice.” And in that wonderful way when one disappears down rabbit holes, Wolff gathered these plant materials too. They even held an open call at Wolff Architects, where they had “a discussion around the plants’ ecology, literature, Bessie Head in general, and trying to bring these various aspects together”.
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