The Saarland Museum’s Modern Gallery, in western Germany, announced last week that it has cancelled an exhibition of your work which was due to open in spring 2024. What happened?
On 24 November, my studio received a call from the director of the museum, announcing that she would likely be forced to cancel the exhibition, which we had been working on for three years. Given the current climate in Germany, I immediately assumed that the cancellation had to do with views that I have expressed in relation to the ongoing carnage in Israel-Palestine. Little did I know that the exhibition had in fact already been cancelled at that point, prior to any conversation with me.
Was the exhibition about Israel-Palestine?
The plan had been to show my work TLDR, a 13-channel video installation that features a community of sex work activists in Cape Town. In short, the exhibition had nothing to do with Israel-Palestine.
