Invisible Reality

Installation

Melusi Masike

This is a geographical concept highlighting misconceptions of race, ideas of identity, belonging, trauma and memory. Invisible Reality welcomes back the ideas borrowed from abstract art and its flawed technique of representation. It is a story of time, cultural memory, migration, oral history, half-truths and potential erasure in modern history. We exist in a flawed global system, with societies and human bodies having to function under systemic formats hidden in the name of modernisation, democracy and concepts of civilisation. Invisible Reality is a response to abandoned morals and culture, adopted memory and history, dysfunctional land and the ideas of belonging. Historically, human bodies have been violated and stripped of their decency, is it because of the skin tone, fruits of the land, human heritage, and gestures of power or is it because of these orchestrated tremors from our dysfunctional political systems? An aura of humanity has been dismantled by all the indecency the human body has endured, due to migration, social status, economy and control aspects of mankind.