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Arkomanis, Ektoras, Shummo, Mae and Medina Uriarte, Lucia (2023) Protea / Extraction. [Artefact]
Digital artwork / installation; commissioned by Liliesleaf Trust and the Anti-Apartheid Centre of Memory and Learning.
Protea / Extraction reimagines a fragment of an early twentieth-century colonial interior somewhere in Europe or South Africa. On display are the projected self-image of wealthy colonists of that time (the adventurer, the amateur of sciences, such as botany, the collector), the penchant for classifying and exhibiting, and idyllic images of botanic gardens that conceal the labour behind their making.
Central to the installation is a trophy-like bronze relief of the outline of Protea Village, an area adjacent to Kirstenbosch, the National Botanical Garden of South Africa, located in Western Cape. In the early-twentieth century, enslaved black South African and other African workers were brought there to work in the garden.
![[thumbnail of Protea_Extraction_1.jpg]](https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9905/3/Protea_Extraction_1.jpg "Protea_Extraction_1.jpg")
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0.
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