{"product_id":"good-hope-carla-liesching","title":"Good Hope - Carla Liesching","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA layered and fragmented narrative made up of both photographs and personal prose ... ultimately it is very much about the present, in all its continued brutality and inequity\u003c\/strong\u003e.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e–\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBritish Journal of Photography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Liesching’s] work examines human relationships to structure, in particular ideological shifts in geographic narratives.\u003c\/strong\u003e”  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMail \u0026amp; Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that orbits around the gardens and grounds at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa — a historic location at the height of Empire, now an epicenter for anti-colonial resistance movements, and also the place of the artist’s birth. Named by the Portuguese in their ‘Age of Discovery’, the Cape’s position at the mid-point along the ‘Spice Route’ was viewed with great optimism for its potential to open up a valuable maritime passageway. The ‘refreshment station’ later established there set into motion flows of capital from ‘east’ to ‘west’. Good Hope brings together cumulative layers of documentary prose, personal essay, and found photographic material, along with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, and National Geographic and Life magazines, to contemporary newspapers and family albums. It offers both an intimate and critical examination of White supremacist settler-colonialism in the present, and a questioning of the ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, collecting, codifying, preserving, naming, knowing, and putting to language.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#ff2a00\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOTA bound paperback with flaps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e15. 3 x 20.3cm, 192 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e978-1-913620-42-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 2021\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42127531737312,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/cover648_860x_97149189-27b0-46a9-ad1e-b9264319f580.jpg?v=1642033262","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/products\/good-hope-carla-liesching","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}