ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Kileni Fernando
Kileni Fernando is a !Xung speaking San woman. She is a co-founding member of an indigenous san youth organisation called ǁAna-Djeh San Trust (AST). She completed several short courses on marginalization & inequality, as well as a diploma in legal history. She has also volunteered as a community facilitator for the Women’s Leadership Centre Project: “Speaking for Ourselves, Voices of the San Young Women”. In 2017 she continued to be a voice for San as a curatorial development consultant for the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre on the West Coast of South Africa. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree with the Open University of Tanzania.
Luke Kaplan
Luke Kaplan is an artist based in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, who works primarily with photography. His practice concerns itself with landscape and history, in particular ow the identities of people and places are formed through and in relationship with each other over time; and with the parallel inter-forming relationships between camera, light, photographer and photographed. He is also a researcher and PhD scholar exploring the of confluence of creative process, ethics and justice.
Saskia Vermeylen
Saskia Vermeylen is a legal anthropologists interested in legal pluralism and living law and has worked for many years in Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe on cultural heritage and ancestral lands. She is also specialised in phenomenology and uses the concepts of ‘stranger’ and ‘exile’ as a theoretical impulse to include an ethics of care and responsibility into the law. More recently she is also interested in the aesthetics of law and has used curation as a critical enquiry to reform space law and is exploring how photography can mobilise a new relationship and dialogue between law, politics, and ethics.
