FREIGHTED, a paper cabinet
175pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, 2025
ISBN: 9781037065101
Published to accompany the travelling exhibition, FREIGHTED: 500 years of rhinoceros collection and display, which opened at Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, in 2018.
The exhibition "presents the rhinoceros as an object of spectacle, study, currency and desire. It refers to the complex history of colony, power and acquisition in relation to early collections of natural history, and the relevance of this to 21st century collections, as well as the crisis in which many species find themselves today."
Contributors: Peter Anderson, Annie Antonites, Ruth Appeltant, Rhona Bloom, Kathleen Coleman, Susan Dackerman, James Elkins, Denise Hamerton, Catherine Kovesi, Nina Liebenberg, Siyakha Mguni, Bongani Ndhlovu, Kees Rookmaaker, Pippa Skotnes, Catarina Teixeira, Gijs van der Ham and David Waterhouse.
Fritha Langerman is Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her public commissioned works include the 3rd Cape Town Public Sculpture Commission.