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.
At the center of this body of work is The Nature of Memory, a large-scale textile installation dyed with indigo and madder root.
Drawing from the palette of the Earth itself, this piece evokes a cellular memory of ocean, sky, and horizon.
It is a meditation on distance, dissolution, and deep time—a reminder that the land is not backdrop, but participant.
