Liminal Landscapes: Exhibiting Ephemera of Great Zimbabwe (Arts on Main) - 2017

                                                                                                                  Exhibition Catalogue

                             Liminal Landscapes: Exhibiting Ephemera of Great Zimbabwe, 5th April 2017 to 9th November 2017 at David Krut Projects,  Art on Main.

                             Published by Wits School of Arts, 2017, exhibition catalogue, landscape format, illustrated, 30 pages, 21 cms x 15 cms, condition: very good.

                                                 The catalogue is edited by Rory Bester with photograohy by Michael Meyersfeld and printed by Orms Print Room.

The exhibition showcases  ephemeral items including souvenirs bought at the site, as well as items sourced from antique dealers in Johannesburg and collections online. The show aimed to visually articulate the multi-faceted nature of ephemera, its curatorial implications within a 21st-century context, and the ways in which it effects ones engagement with the site specifically. The concepts of memory, marginality and motif have been used to guide and shape the reasons for acquiring and exhibiting the specific items seen on the show. They encompass issues of ephemera and Great Zimbabwe.

Through fleeting liminal material that is more often ambiguous than certain, the exhibition offers speculative representations of a heritage site whose its origins and purpose are undefined. We do not aim to add to theoretical questions about the archaeological and social histories of the site, but rather aim to understand the site, through its ephemera, in relation to how it has been marginalised, memorialised, and turned into motif. Through observations, theoretical explorations, experiences, and research, Liminal Landscapes sets forth the viewer on a journey of discovery and insight, and to view the works and objects with notions of investigation and knowledge-creation.