HASHIM TARMAHOMED UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
Tarmahomed ’ s project emphasised the significance of earth for dispossessed communities at the Avalon Cemetery . As a project that emphasises the significance of earth for dispossessed communities in the act of burial , clay brick was used as a primary building material . Avalon Cemetery is a buffer zone
between the townships of Soweto , Lenasia and Eldorado Park , where the non-European community of Johannesburg , dissected into Black African , Indian and Coloured , was displaced respectively . Not only is this terrain a common space of death , it is also the generator of political agency and cultural presence .
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