Ravelle Pillay

Hothouse, 2024

Ravelle Pillay (b.1993, Durban, South Africa) considers the legacies of colonialism and migration, and their subsequent hauntings and reverberations in the present. She draws from found and family photographs and the material degradation of images over time to consider agency, memory, and life-making.

Hothouse continues the artist's exploration of what and how we remember. It taps into her interrogation of the lingering shadows of nationhood, heritage and the cycles of oppression experienced by generations of people across space and time, whose lives have been circumscribed by the dark, overt or barely noticeable incursions of colonialism.