People, like plants, have roots that run deep. “Tree” tries to tap into that, and finds that, the further you dig, the more tangled things get. Set in South Africa, where politics are s…
More ReviewsWhatever the real story behind the contractual dispute, “Tree” understands the balance of black trauma to hope, unpeeling the reality of South Africa’s past from the stories we tend to tell . It resets a sepia-toned image of anti-apartheid movements, often crystalized in the figure of the sage-like Mandela, and re-interrogates the fraught complexities and unhealed wounds that remain divisive in South Africa today.
Enoch elegantly conveys the existential crisis of a mixed-race expat, showing the soul-stirring headswim of arriving in an alien country you can call your own. He walks around, wide-eyed, open-mouthed, absorbing it all — the chirruping crickets, the throat-scorching air, the hot, hard ground underfoot. Duncan McLean conjures the landscape in light, throwing swirling sunsets and ember-like stars onto the woven wicker screen that encircles Jon Bausor’s open space.
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