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b. 1983

Nicola Brandt (born April 5, 1983, in Windhoek, Namibia) is a Namibian-German artist working at the intersection between memory studies, landscape, ecology, and feminist and queer theory. Much of her work uses the metaphor of place and landscape and centres around themes of power, desire, and destruction.

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The landscape was like a veil that obscured painful struggles and lives that existed in them.

I had discovered that the British imperial statue of a horse and rider exists in three different locations: London, Cape Town, and Harare.

There was an absence of markers or memorials where atrocities occurred.

As an artist sensitive to the histories and memories contained in the landscapes and structures that relate to our past, it is difficult not to engage with our colonial inheritance and its effects.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicola Brandt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.