A Protea Is Not a Flower
On nowZeitz MOCAA16 Oct 2025 – 15 Nov 2026
Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode enter a multigenerational conversation with Gerard Sekoto, Bessie Head and Don Mattera about exile and belonging.
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A Protea Is Not a Flower places contemporary artists Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode in dialogue with painter Gerard Sekoto and writers Bessie Head and Don Mattera. Khanyi Mawhayi curates the exhibition around lives and work shaped by voluntary and forced exile.
Don Mattera's poem Protea… gives the exhibition its title. Painting, installation, photography, film and commissioned murals connect colonial movement, resilience, identity and the protea's history as an indigenous plant exported for commercial cultivation.
Further information
- Dates
- 16 October 2025-15 November 2026
- Curator
- Khanyi Mawhayi
- Artists
- Lerato Shadi, Robin Rhode and Gerard Sekoto
- Writers
- Bessie Head and Don Mattera
