Gnossienne 002

Gnossienne 002Editor's Note: Regaining a density that oulled it from the sky, down toward the earth. a single word witched, split and burst into 260 pages. This word a Prosaic prompt: planted in the brain as a kernel, a plum, a fist, around which a husk, a skin, a hand could wrap itself began to leak beyond the confines of its name, spilling more than cloud. If I told you what this word was, you might find the red thread of it following a needle, pushing into and

Text accompanying the exhibition stated: 'Botha's installations reflect on the individual's absorption into the encompassing hierarchical structures of statehood and society

social commentary and print-making forms that interact with the political and historical legacy of print-making in South Africa

Two - one of a small boy drinking from an open-air tap

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closed-off neighborhoods that retain their local identity despite the broader systems into which they are partly absorbed’

Zulu’s exploration of the relationship between tradition and urban experience is reflected in a visual practice which is at once critical and resolutely aesthetic

nor the political from the private

a stove for sale in the sunshine

Blindfolded line

Words present a way of making sense of what we see

get out of these images

and data are indexes to local knowledge