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.

It is not a container but a frame for absence, a poetic ruin of wholeness. The montage itself threatens to unravel, disintegrating into charcoal smears and a trash of pulp—back to the graphite rubble from which the animation emerged.

In the art installation PRELUDE at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, the artist Álvaro Urbano conjures a spectral mise en scène of a 19th century landscaped area situated in the heart of Central Park.

Walter Ford probes the gaze of the symbolic lion, burdened by the weight of cultural signs stacked on its back since antiquity.

Through immersive scenarios, Huyghe’s art exhibition challenges our perceptions of reality, identity, and the boundaries of time and space.

‘Berlinde De Bruyckere. City of Refuge III’, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibit

‘Not a pianist,’ Witold describes himself, ‘simply a man who plays the piano.’

Like the ghost of Hamlet's father who lacks symbolic closure, the rescue of Pierneef's Station Panels begins with symbolic desire.

SANG 23/12/2022 - J Scott. Johannes Scott – January 2023 With exhibition halls designed in the fashion of a boutique hotel and walls...

Foucault and Lacan interpret the gaze of authority operative in a painting that signals the rupture between Classical and Modern knowledge.