Double Vision

The cabinets in this installation represent individual identities; focusing on the ways in which differences in seeing and representing have constructed identities.
It reflects the foundational significance of history and the way in which history is chaotically and randomly assembled in an archive. The display is divided into sections, each of which reflects on and interprets aspects of the experience of Origins Centre.

The eland bones have powerful phrases and poems from the San. Portraying their mythology and beliefs.

Pippa Skotnes and Malcolm Payne are artists and were both were professors of fine art at the Michaels School of Fine Art. Malcolm Payne is now an Emeritus Professor at the school. Skotnes is the Director of the Centre for Curating the Archive. Pippa Skotnes is widely known for her work on the Bleek and Lloyd collection and for her creative interpretation of its content.