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HERE and THERE: WORK | REST | PLAY (2025/2026)
Watch here: https://vimeo.com/1209037183?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
The work was incuded in UNISA’s ‘THE WILL TO BE’ exhibition August 2026.
Single-channel video |Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa (2025) and Sahara Desert, Morocco (2026)
The work is a video collage moving between landscapes — the Sahara Desert in Morocco, the dunes of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, and Scotland, carried in the body of a piper and in the settler ancestry of the artist herself. These places do not resolve into each other. They rub up against each other, dream through each other, call across the distance via semaphore.
In Morocco, a body lies at rest, a palm leaf moving across skin. Images of Hamburg appear above, as if rising through sleep. In Hamburg, a Scottish piper plays as waves are drawn into the sand — a settler inheritance meeting the land it arrived on. Then: the same body rolling down the dune, surrendering to gravity, going nowhere, doing it again.
Two small figures in red dresses communicate via semaphore across continents — not a letter, not a manifesto, but a painting held up between them. This is the not-yet, the 'not-now, but just now': a world where womxn find each other across inherited distances, where the message is feeling rather than argument, where imagination is the political act.
Drawing on Sara Ahmed's thinking about disorientation and Audre Lorde's understanding of the erotic as epistemology — the capacity to feel deeply as a form of knowledge — this work asks what it means to carry multiple histories in one body, and what becomes possible when those histories meet not in argument, but in non-sensical, yet highly sensory play.
Credits:
As recipient of the Brian Shinewald Memorial Fellowship,this work was made with the Ansible Institute at Café Tissardmine, Morocco, March 2026. Many thanks to [M], Karen, everyone at the Ansible Institute, and my brilliant collaborator Brandon Gibson-Degroote.
Filming: Brandon Gibson-Degroote
Creative Director and Editor: Anthea Moys
Additional footage filmed on the dunes in Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Many thanks to Craig Ballentine (pipes), Denise Moys and Lynnley Watson for filming.
This work is an ode to the late Vuyisile Gaba — the Dune Runner in Hamburg, South Africa.
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Watch here: https://vimeo.com/1209037183?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
The work was incuded in UNISA’s ‘THE WILL TO BE’ exhibition August 2026.
Single-channel video |Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa (2025) and Sahara Desert, Morocco (2026)
The work is a video collage moving between landscapes — the Sahara Desert in Morocco, the dunes of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, and Scotland, carried in the body of a piper and in the settler ancestry of the artist herself. These places do not resolve into each other. They rub up against each other, dream through each other, call across the distance via semaphore.
In Morocco, a body lies at rest, a palm leaf moving across skin. Images of Hamburg appear above, as if rising through sleep. In Hamburg, a Scottish piper plays as waves are drawn into the sand — a settler inheritance meeting the land it arrived on. Then: the same body rolling down the dune, surrendering to gravity, going nowhere, doing it again.
Two small figures in red dresses communicate via semaphore across continents — not a letter, not a manifesto, but a painting held up between them. This is the not-yet, the 'not-now, but just now': a world where womxn find each other across inherited distances, where the message is feeling rather than argument, where imagination is the political act.
Drawing on Sara Ahmed's thinking about disorientation and Audre Lorde's understanding of the erotic as epistemology — the capacity to feel deeply as a form of knowledge — this work asks what it means to carry multiple histories in one body, and what becomes possible when those histories meet not in argument, but in non-sensical, yet highly sensory play.
Credits:
As recipient of the Brian Shinewald Memorial Fellowship,this work was made with the Ansible Institute at Café Tissardmine, Morocco, March 2026. Many thanks to [M], Karen, everyone at the Ansible Institute, and my brilliant collaborator Brandon Gibson-Degroote.
Filming: Brandon Gibson-Degroote
Creative Director and Editor: Anthea Moys
Additional footage filmed on the dunes in Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Many thanks to Craig Ballentine (pipes), Denise Moys and Lynnley Watson for filming.
This work is an ode to the late Vuyisile Gaba — the Dune Runner in Hamburg, South Africa.
