— Notes from the Fire
2026 Association for Visual Arts Gallery Cape Town
Welcome to the Pyrocene or rather, what’s left of it. In ever widening circles, The Fire engulfed everything…
or nearly everything. Retrieved and remembered, herewith the catalogue of the Life System as waged
in the Age of Pyrocene in the sites of the former Cape of Smoke:
i} Excavated from the ashes, carbonised remnants of the midden, the middle and the miraculous.
ii} Passed down in oral tradition, wax paintings of memories half-forgotten.
iii} Cast from molten plaques, wax tablature in a language we know only as Ömen.
