Rejecting the oppositional binarizations of ‘home’ and “away”, To Be In and Out of the World illustrates a visual politics of ‘post’-colonial dispossession through a triangulation between Hong Kong/China, Palestine/Israel and South Africa, through the works of Tiffany Sia, Ahlam Shibli and Nolan Oswald Dennis, respectively.

The exhibition is conceptually articulated through Dennis' diagrammatic “black consciousness of space”: an imaginative spatialisation of state politics, memory and the metaphysics of territory. Shibli's contrast between the instability of existence inside and outside of state recognition pits the conditionally and bureaucratically legible guestworker in Germany against the socially deceased Palestinian in the occupied West Bank. Sia's challenge to the visual insistence of legibility involves the precariousness of the reliability of her own narrative and/against the omnipotence of state historicity - her geopoetics of ‘non-place’ is realised through the gaze of a child. and ‘far away’, To Be In and Out of the World illustrates a visual politics of ‘post’-colonial dispossession through a triangulation between Hong Kong/China, Palestine/Israel and South Africa, through the works of Tiffany Sia, Ahlam Shibli and Nolan Oswald Dennis, respectively.