A Burden Consumed in Sips

The starting point of the exhibition project is a bundle of photographs and drawings by German painter and photographer Marie Pauline Thorbecke. Thorbecke undertook an expedition to Cameroon on assignment from the German Colonial Society between 1911 and 1913, together with her husband Franz Thorbecke. For fifteen months, Marie Pauline Thorbecke wrote diary letters detailing their Cameroon trek and sent them back home in Germany. The diary letters were later published as a book: On the Savannah: Marie Pauline Thorbecke (1990, Geary, Christraud M.). 110 years later, Kganye follows her footsteps through the country and weaves together memories, impressions and narratives, all from a female perspective.