Frohawk Two Feathers: The Edge of the Earth Isn't Far From Here
Stevenson, Cape Town, Western Cape, Cape Town, 10/25/2011 - 11/25/2011
Ground floor, Buchanan Building 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
STEVENSON is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in South Africa by American artist Frohawk Two Feathers.
Through wildly imaginative and detailed drawings, Frohawk Two Feathers reimagines colonial history, using the fictional Empire of Frengland as the driving force in his global narrative. For The Edge of the Earth Isn't Far from Here, he has unearthed events in a Cape Colony of 1792, where a lone Frenglish garrison - unaware of recent shifts in power 'back home' - finds itself threatened by a Batavian invasion:
Meanwhile back at the Cape Colony, all was business as usual. The lowborn military governor of the colony, Captain Didier Lamontagne, was biding his time there hoping for someone to come and relieve him so that he could 'go to the front' where he felt his administrative acumen and tactical genius would be better served. He was by no means hostile to the natives and was quite diplomatic with the neighbouring pastoral Khoi and the various Xhosa tribes to the east. He conducted trade with the Zulu and was even kind to the Boers who had lived in the colony before Frenglish occupation.
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