A visual artist with a master’s degree in fine arts (MFA) from the University of Cape Town, MEGAN-LEIGH HEILIG (South Africa, 1993) work draws on multiple languages to address sociopolitical issues from dreams, memories and personal stories. She took part in the Kampala Biennial (2016) and film and video festivals in countries such as Cameroon, Spain, England and Japan.
In THE POLITICS OF CHOICE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LEAVING (2018), we watch an intimate, whispered conversation between two female lovers. When not secluded in the bedroom, they hit the road in search of landscapes. At this moment, however, another kind of journey is about to happen. The artist documented in this work the days preceding her trip from South Africa to Belgium, to where she was moving. Her girlfriend, on the other hand, after years living in South Africa, has to return to her home country, Namibia, where homosexuality is criminalized. The complexity of frontiers, courses and identities is the guiding thread of this kind of lyrical diary of a departure.
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