Driving across South Africa in a kitted-out campervan, Goldblatt describes the landscape as “deep, bland, vast and seemingly featureless.” He wrote that “precisely in these qualities is a presence that is difficult to hold or suggest in photographs. As soon as you try to bring what is before you into some sort of visual coherence, it eludes, it seems to move away. There seems no focal point, no way of coherently containing it. Often it is what I call a ‘fuck all’ landscape. Somehow one has to find ways of being true to what is there and yet bringing it fully to the page or print.” (Regarding Intersections, 2014).

Kiluanji Kia Henda (b. 1979, Luanda, Angola) explores themes of identity, politics, and perceptions of post-colonialism and modernism in Africa. Structures of Survival (2022) depicts the fragile framework for a house in the heart of the Namib Desert. Related to how a construction boom in Angola following the civil war has excluded much of the local population, the work alludes to the unattainability of housing for many. Like a mirage, the impending threat of erosion to the structure's foundations only compounds its ephemerality.