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Renowned South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga will be showcasing a new body of work, entitled Queens in Exile, at WHATIFTHEWORLD until 27 January 2018.
“This isn’t simply a revisionist exercise, patching up inconvenient holes in the historical record,” says the gallery. “Instead, Ruga excavates collective memory and exclusionary national myth to rebuild both in wholly new shapes – to make a world where the exiled can reign. The result is a land of many queens, lost and found and forgotten.”
The exhibition, which aims to tell better stories, is the culmination of a three-year project between 2014 and 2017, including Athi-Patra’s 2014 exhibition The Future White Woman of Azania Saga.
Queens in Exile features a collection of hand-embroidered petit point tapestries, as well as a large-scale film projection entitled Over The Rainbow.
The exhibition runs from 29 November 2017 until 27 January 2018 at WHATIFTHEWORLD, 1 Argyle Street, Woodstock, Cape Town. For more information, visit whatiftheworld.com.
* Read our Q&A with Athi-Patra Ruga on pages 146 and 147 in the latest issue of VISI (93) – on sale now.
