Caroline Sohie | Hymn (2024)

The work engages with the enduring exotic gaze cast upon Africa. By reappropriating colonial-era imagery and idyllic visual tropes, it interrogates how the continent has long been objectified as a resource—romanticised, extracted from, and woven into narratives that are not its own. Layered beneath this is the enduring mystique of ‘Dark Africa,’ a construct that has shaped both fascination and misrepresentation across centuries.