In the aftermath of the pandemic, ‘ghosts’ haunt our landscapes in an illogical world where fish share the ocean with satellites and space probes from unknown galaxies. Ships float through time and space, connecting the 21st and 17th centuries, with our bodies, faces and eyes – doubly invisible. In the night sky owls hunt across pages of an open book, as bats mark their space with soundwaves. The text, from Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things merges with the night sky of owls and fish, which defy all reason. Constellations seen from the southern hemisphere connect star to star; the horse Pegasus beckons to leaping Pisces; a hunter, Orion, aims an arrow at the running dog, Canis Minor; and Leo, the lion constellation confronts the pincers of the crab, Cancer. Between the sea and the sky, the open book reveals that in the midst of this dispersion is an essential void.

Christine Dixie is a South African artist working primarily with printmaking, film and installation. Based in Makhanda, she lectures at Rhodes University's Fine Art Department and completed her MFA at UCT.

Her work is featured in collections such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Standard Bank Gallery and Iziko National Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘The Harbingers’ at the University of Johannesburg, ‘Blueprint for the DisOrder of Things’ at the Art Museum, and ‘To Be King’ at Iwalewahaus, Germany. Art theorist Ashraf Jamal describes her work as "fantastical" yet "grippingly current".