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.
Celebrities forsake Ego for Art
Nick Cave, Thomas Houseago, and Brad Pitt at Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland: 18.9.2022 – 15.1.2023 Johannes Scott While...
RAKU – and the object of desire
The guests were all scattered in one large room, lounging on the floor with paint brushes and saucers of colours spread out amongst them. On