Quiet Ground highlights the political,
social, ontological and spiritual histories
of land. It highlights the many forms of
dislocation from the land, with a keen
focus on natal alienation, and being
forcefully removed from one’s land. The
exhibition meditates on the secret life of
land, and examines the many ways that
land operates within the sociopolitical
climate. Rooted in legacies of histories of
forced migration in South Africa, Quiet
Ground pays attention to the many ways
that the dispossessed reconnect with
the land through processes of rehoming
and land rehabilitation that are rooted in
indigenous epistemologies. The exhibition
advocates the subjectivity and agency
of land, and explores land as method,
epistemology, educator, punctuated
by considerations of land as repository
of memory, as archive and as a portal
through which ancestral epistemologies
are communicated and transferred.