ABSTRACT
Uriel Orlow is an artist who lives and works in London and Zurich. His practice is research-based and emphasizes artistic processes. Orlow is particularly concerned with the spatial manifestations of memory, blind spots of representation and forms of haunting. Orlow collaborated with the actor Lindiwe Matshikiza to produce double exposed images, in which Matshikiza comes to inhabit the archival film, thereby confronting its naturalization of a historical and politically charged territorial appropriation. Orlow accompanies one of his works entitled Grey, Green, Gold, which explores the interconnected histories of the flower known colloquially since the 1990s as Mandela's Gold, or by botanists as yellow Strelitzia Regina, and the history of Nelson Mandela's incarceration on Robben Island and the garden he created there with his fellow prisoners. In 1994 the original stock of yellow Strelitzias had been built up enough to be introduced to horticulture.
