Alida Rodrigues reworked colonial-era portraits through botanical collage

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

In a 2020 ART AFRICA interview, Alida Rodrigues explained how collected photographs and botanical imagery developed into The Secret History of Plants. By altering historical portraits, she questions the histories attached to them and the colonial gaze preserved in photographic archives. Rodrigues also described the ethical difficulty of working with images of Black subjects. The series was announced for This Is Not a White Cube’s Cape Town Art Fair presentation.

Summarised from ART AFRICA · Storm Simpson. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.