Notes

“Queens in Exile is about telling better stories. This isn’t simply a revisionist exercise, patching up inconvenient holes in the historical record. Instead, Ruga excavates collective memory and exclusionary national myth to rebuild both in wholly new shapes – to make a world where the exiled can reign. The result is a land of many queens, lost and found and forgotten.”¹

^1. WHATIFTHEWORLD (no date) Queens in Exile, online, https://www.whatiftheworld.com/exhibition/queens-in-exile-2014-2017/, accessed 23 August 2023.

Provenance

WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, 2017.

Private Collection.

Exhibited

WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, Queens in Exile, Solo Exhibition, 29 November to 7 February 2018.