Home Affairs

By Pamela Bentley

Main Gallery - 18.01.24 - 29.02.24

An exhibition focusing on movement, access and migration as well as the urgent need for a tolerant Pan-African society on this continent Exploring migration across land and sea, the show documents the movement of people through space in general - a social fabric and multi-sensory map of motion. Using the art-making process as a catalyst for dialogue and community building, Home Affairs seeks to document the relationships created through the project as both digital archive and artistic medium.

Consisting of works dedicated to the experiences of a landscape: felt and informed by how we encounter them. With paintings that flood viewers with colour and memory and draw on elemental forces of the earth and its richness, alongside the natural power of the sea and the people it has carried between continents, the Home Affairs artworks commemorate the contrasting landscapes of Pamela’s personal migration from land-locked Zimbabwe ton the port city of Cape Town, South Africa. Paying homage to cross-ocean voyagers, the show includes works that speak to the warnings of danger as well as the solace of safe harbour; referencing the liminal spaces and instability every migrant must find comfort amongst; speaking to the fragile nature immigrant life and an existence hanging in the balance without certainty or solid ground.

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