Play-White Roman »Denn nichts«

»Denn nichts«

Hildegard of Bingen

I was an illustrator looking for a story to illustrate

In this issue

We’ve been flying kites in South-East France and visiting rural Mozambique through Cassi Namoda’s paintings

Play-White Roman »Denn nichts«The racist term "play white" comes from the apartheid era, when it connoted a black or mixed race person who lived as a white person: So and so is a play white. South African artist Bianca Baldi draws from studies of biomimicry and her own family history, as well as literary precedentssuch as Nella Larsens novel Passing (1929)to reflect on racial passing and the instability of racial identities. Play White alternates between layers of visualization