'A Temporary Admission'

Bridget Baker’s work is situated at the intersection of documentary and myth making, forming a series of complex visual fragments realised through film making, installation and documented re-stagings. The artist interweaves personal histories and narratives with larger historic moments, with an interest in the blind-spots created by official narrations of the past. Her practice is infused with humour, labour and frailty.

For the exhibition a large artefact is freighted by ship from London to the Port Elizabeth harbour. Its arrival mimics its original function, that of human transporter or lift, landing passengers between settler ships and smaller boats out at sea before the development of harbours on the coast of
the Indian Ocean. As part of the installation a new film documents this “retour”.

'Jetty SCOUR' is projected alongside the object, a strange relic from another time, whose function and purpose is not immediately evident. At the end of the exhibition, it returns to London, as its import conditions stipulate: “temporary admission”.

03 July - 13 July