VENARUM MUNDI, SAN FRANSISCO, USA, 2025
JUNE 28 – AUGUST 2, 2025HERON ARTS.
Through the delicate and labor-intensive process of deconstruction and reassembly,
South African artist FAITH XLVII invites the viewer into an exploration
of the economic and geopolitical systems that structure our world.
Using the materiality of discontinued currency, maps, and flags,
the artist weaves together complex commentaries on value, borders,
and the shifting forces that shape our global reality.
Venarum Mundi reimagines the boundaries of borders, earth and sea by crafting intricately hand-sewn tapestries
that piece apart and reimagine the boundaries between wealth and place.
This body of meticulously handmade objects echo the fragile fabric of the world we inhabit,
and the inherent tensions in our understanding of migration, and territoriality.
These artworks, imbued with both beauty and gravity, question the very materials from which they are made
—once seen as true signals of stability, now rendered obsolete.
This is Faith’s inaugural solo exhibition in San Francisco.
Additionally, she has an expansive mural on the facade of the University of Hastings Law School titled ‘The Unbound’.
Her debut museum exhibition was presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, France, in 2023.
The artist’s work has been exhibited at prominent institutions such as the Calais Museum of Fine Arts,
the Bernard Magrez Foundation in Bordeaux, Mana Contemporary and the Brooklyn Museum in the USA, among others.
