Sue Williamson District Six: Museum Case # 1, Constitution St, 1993 Found objects in casting resin and perspex case Work: 44 x 102 x 12 cm
For the 'Museum Case' series Sue Williamson visited the site of the area formerly known as District Six in Cape Town, which had undergone forced removals during apartheid. Williamson gathered fragments of various objects that had remained in the area following demolition and cast these fragments in small resin blocks.
‘The pieces both celebrate the liveliness of the community that once was, and are also an indictment of a society which allowed a community to be destroyed until there was nothing left but inert fragments. We are used to seeing fragments of pre-Columbian clay figures or Roman glass displayed in museums – but in my role as fake ‘museum director’ I have preserved these fragments of a community which was very much alive only fifteen years before the piece was made.’ - Sue Williamson
