‘Camp’ features a number of tent-like sculptures, resembling forms somewhere between makeshift structures and commercial camping tents. Lit from inside, the hidden warm light implies occupation or presence of people that are perhaps engaged in the last evening duties and routines before going to bed. The light represents life, resilience and hope.

The imagery of a tent or a grouping of them is familiar to many – although with varied associations – conjuring memories and experiences of adventure, fun, shelter, rescue, family vacations, historical settlements and illegal occupations. The viewers are positioned as witnesses to a familiar and relatable experience. ‘Camp’ leans on this connection to encourage tolerance and understanding of displaced peoples.

The artist’s work focuses on the forced migration of refugees and asylum seekers – and the in-between space they navigate, from the homes they leave behind to new and unfamiliar ones they encounter.

Rwandan-born Serge Alain Nitegeka lives and works in Johannesburg. Nitegeka has exhibited at Marianne Boesky Gallery and Boesky East in New York, SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia and Le Manège gallery, French Institute in Dakar.

Group exhibitions include Lines of Sight in South Africa, Between Borders in the Netherlands, Ubuntu, a lucid dream in Paris, Re/discovery and Memory in Cape Town, Solidary & Solitary in New Orleans, What remains is tomorrow at Venice Biennale, This House in Paris, My Joburg in Paris and Dresden, and The Space Between Us in Berlin.