An art/literature conversation, with images, between Elleke Boehmer and Lola Frost at the Artvark Gallery in Kalk Bay, to explore the synergies between Boehmer’s Southern Imagining book and Frost’s At the Edge of the Skirt of the World paintings.
For Dilip Menon (University of the Witwatersrand), Boehmer “brings erudition, passion and poetry to the project of generating a vast archive of filiations between indigenous cosmologies and the literary imagination. This book shows us how transhemispheric conversations can move us beyond a northern solipsism to think with the planetary.”
Relatedly, the southern semiotics of Frost’s painting practice fold interconnection, impropriety, vulnerability, and desire into an aesthetics of the littoral and the liminal, to pulse beyond mastery, repression, and power.
