This immersive experience took audiences into the hidden world of decaying Lady San Lorenzo – a rusting, deep-sea, diamond-mining vessel at the port of Cape Town. The ship had provided shelter to frightened Ghanaian immigrants who were too afraid to venture out because of xenophobia and the illegality of their status. ‘Rusting Diamond’ reflects on the spatiality of abandonment, migrants, and globalisation by presenting a set of ‘counter-images’ of global capitalism.
About Meghna Singh
Meghna Singh is a visual artist and a researcher at the University of Cape Town with a PhD in visual anthropology, focusing on the theme of migration. Working with the mediums of video and installation, blurring boundaries between documentary and fiction, she creates immersive environments highlighting issues of ‘humanism’ and focusing on themes of human migration (historical and contemporary), globalisation & critical mobilities.
