The Protea, Flowers, and Symbolic Violence
The protea as wound, desire, and refusal—This essay reads Bessie Head’s life through the protea metaphor, tracing how the art exhibition A PROTEA IS NOT A FLOWER at Zeitz MOCAA stages symbolic violence and its repetitions under apartheid, while her survival embodies the unresolved wound and the renewal of Symbolic Desire—an order always to be reimagined, always to come.
LION OF GOD by Walter Ford
Walter Ford probes the gaze of the symbolic lion, burdened by the weight of cultural signs stacked on its back since antiquity.
LIMINAL by Pierre Huyghe
Through immersive scenarios, Huyghe’s art exhibition challenges our perceptions of reality, identity, and the boundaries of time and space.
ANGELS: Berlinda De Bruyckere
‘Berlinde De Bruyckere. City of Refuge III’, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibit
TO SAVE A GHOST
Like the ghost of Hamlet's father who lacks symbolic closure, the rescue of Pierneef's Station Panels begins with symbolic desire.