Dreams as R-Evolution - Softcover

Bijoux, Coral

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0620897422 ISBN 13: 9780620897426

Publisher: Publishing Print Matters, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Publishing Print Matters
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0620897422
• ISBN 13: 9780620897426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Jamal Ashraf