Zonnebloem Renamed
2013 - Film & Video (Film & Video)
1 min 30
Haroon Gunn-Salie
Executed on Sunday 17 August 2013, “Zonnebloem renamed” is a site-specific performative video film marking the centenary of the 1913 Natives Land Act in South Africa. The short film forms part of the artist’s ongoing collaboration with District Six residents titled WITNESS. Commencing in 2011, WITNESS negotiates the forced removals and land compensation in District Six and across South Africa. District Six was a closely-knit, vibrant and multi-cultural community until the forced removal by the apartheid decree during the 1970s from Cape Town’s city center, when the area was declared ‘whites only’ under the Group Areas Act in 1968. During this time, District Six was officially renamed by the apartheid government as Zonnebloem. The renaming further erased the history of the area and people from maps, memories and public spaces. Gunn-Salie’s short film presents a series of temporary artworks by changing the ‘Zonnebloem’ road signs in central Cape Town to read ‘District Six’. “Zonnebloem renamed” is an attempt by Gunn-Salie to change apartheid and colonial heritage that dominates people popular memory in Cape Town and South Africa through aesthetic and social intervention.
Haroon Gunn-Salie (b. Cape Town, South Africa, 1989) is currently based between Cape Town and Johannesburg. Having completed his studies in Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012, Gunn-Salie is an active participant in Cape Town’s local contemporary art community. Gunn-Salie‘s collaborative art practice is focused on translating the oral histories of his community into artistic interventions and installations. Employing a multidisciplinary practice and working with residents of District Six — an area in central Cape Town where widespread forced removals occurred — Gunn-Salie provokes collaborative dialogues and exchanges surrounding the still unresolved issues of forced removals under apartheid.
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