Law and the Land - Artist Talk

Introduction to "Law and the Land by Luke Kaplan and Saskia Dr Saskia Vermeylen at 2.00pm

1 hour FREE. RSPV required either by clicking through this event or emailing saskia.vermeylen@strath.ac.uk

A photographic exploration of justice, place, ancestors and spirit in  Namibia

Luke Kaplan's powerful exhibition explores the spiritual, cultural, and legal relationships between a San community in Namibia and the land in which they live. The photographic work emerged through a collaborative research project with the Ju/’hoan people of N//homa village, which sought new ways of representing the law: not merely as a codified set of texts, but by portraying the land claims of this community, and others like it, in a manner which does justice to an embodied and spiritual sense of living law. The San of Southern Africa (sometimes called Bushmen) are a widely dispersed and diverse group of people, who despite language and geographical differences share deep cultural…