Lungiswa Gqunta, Lituation, 2018 © Manifesta 12
Mixed media installation at Orto Botanico
This installation by South African artist Lungiswa Gqunta sought to interpret the Orto Botanico garden as a volatile space layered with complex histories of oppression, sacred rituals and memory. In the context of South Africa’s colonial history of the relationship of Black people to the land is tied to brutal exploitation, and simultaneously a sense of transcendence.