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. The diary letters were later published as a book On the Savannah: Marie Pauline Thorbecke (1990, Geary, Christraud M.). 110 years later, Lebohang Kganye follows her footsteps through the country and, in a video piece (A Burden Consumed in Sips) and an installation (Two Stories of (Hi)stories Betray me), weaves together memories, impressions and narratives, all from a female perspective.
