The Summer Flowers exhibition combines sound, drawings, plant pressings and texts by the author Bessie Head to explore themes of belonging between apartheid-era South Africa and Serowe, Botswana. Created by Ilze Wolff of Wolff Architects, the exhibition is an immersive space to experience ‘liberation architecture’, where Bessie Head’s words and her garden archive become tools to interrogate power dynamics.
The Urban Room installation builds on its earlier presentations at the Dakar Biennale and the Chicago Architecture Biennale. This tender work gains an interactive studio component within the university. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to listen to vinyl on a record player crafted by sculptor Dada Khanyisa. Ticketed zine-making, plant-pressing and vinyl-listening sessions will also be held during the exhibition – details to follow.
[Free and no need to pre-book. Exhibition open Monday to Saturday weekly.]