THERE WAS SOMETHING HERE BEFORE
THERE WAS SOMETHING HERE BEFORE Exhibition by Zahira Asmnal 18- 27 July 2025 There Was Something Here Before is an interactive exchibibon by Zahira Asmal. In 2023, Asmal's research led her to Sri Lanka, where she searched for traces of the Cape ancestors that she had learned about in archives, books, and sites of memory. and that shaped the identity of their descendants in Cape Town. The exchibition introduces the interlocking layers of past, pres ent, and planned future experience -both hyper-medated and hidden-that constitute contenporary Cape Town. Concise and metaphorical, its layered design visualses the structural DNA of the city that continues to reproduce spatial apartheid. It considers the originating thns that un between Cape Town and Coiomiac bty and kowing continue to connSoth Africa and Sri Lanka? Thare Hee Before is produced by The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Sri Lanke . Opening Ceremony 18th July 2025 @7.00pm at the Arcade Clock Tower Bulding , 1st Floor , N...