NIHSS CREATIVE COLLECTIONS - Best Exhibition Catalogue /Art Book Category 2022
Dreams as R-evolution is both the catalogue for an art installation of the same name, and a work of art itself. The book is a sumptuously-designed record of an exhibit conveying the work of Durban-based artist, Coral Bijoux, landscaped into the spaces of the Westville Plant Nursery. Among the images that open the book is text by the artist that functions as a poem, a warning, and as historical observation. “When you want to enslave a people, you steal their ability to dream.” Reminiscent of the U.S. Black poet Langston Hughes’ 1951 lyric, “A Dream Deferred,” (What happens to a dream deferred/Does it dry up/Like a raisin in the sun…Or does it explode?), Bijoux’s text prepares us to consider dreaming as an act of insurrection.
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We are all victims of conformity, shackled to what others have decided we should be. The trauma I experienced on Robben Island and under house-arrest crippled me. At forty-one, I found healing from art but my greatest lesson began when I started working with found material. It liberated me from conventional thinking. Trekking through this undergrowth of this book – the habitat of monkeys, birds, snakes, wild animals, and waste – I came across a new fantasy world, a neglected wilderness that Coral Bijoux transformed into a playground for young and old. It helped me to visualise what we can still offer to the world. – LIONEL DAVIS visual artist and struggle veteran Cape Town.
