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SECRET HISTORY
ancintya Mohini Simpson paints her topographic scenes on , a type of handmade paper used for traditional Indian miniature painting, before arranging them in a grid formation (left) so that the fragmented picture might evoke the gaps, elisions and silences of the colonial archive. A descendent of indentured labourers sent from India to work on South African plantations, the artist and researcher explores the complexities of migration, memory and
