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WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Dead Centre, a solo exhibition by Rowan Smith. With this latest body of work, Smith executes a number of strategies intended to exoticise the idea of whiteness in contemporary South Africa, removing the veil that allows it to persist as normative and unseen.

To this end, the exhibition’s central motif is Smith’s custom variation of the ‘Soldier 2000’ military camouflage pattern adopted by the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) since 1994. Replacing the earthy brown tones with white and grayscale camouflage patterning, the modified print serves as …