JOHANNES SCOTT​

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.

Nick Cave, Thomas Houseago, and Brad Pitt at Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland: 18.9.2022 – 15.1.2023 Johannes Scott While...