Southern Imagining: At the Edge of the Skirt of the World.
Thu Mar 12, 18:00 - Thu Mar 12, 20:30
Kalk Bay Courtyard at Artvark Gallery
ABOUT
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.
Situated at the edge of the southern ocean, the Artvark Gallery is the perfect setting for what promises to be an illuminating exchange between two South African-born artist-scholars, whose southern imaginings bring new perspectives to both art and literature.
Doors open 17h30.
What your ticket includes
– Entry to the talk and conversation (6–7 pm)
– Non-refundable R200 voucher towards food & drink at The Courtyard Café (7–8.30pm)
Additional information
– Boehmer’s books for sale from Wordsworth Books and Karavan Press.
– RSVP required by 5 March 2026
Websites
Partners
Wits University Press
Wordsworth Books and Karavan Press