South Africa
Intimacy, history, and the conditions of proximity.
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Designed Proximity
In South Africa, proximity was not incidental—it was built.
Beginning with the work of Youlendree Appasamy and Nosipho Mngomezulu, this entry traces how Black and Indian lives were brought into relation through labour, land, and law—and how those conditions still shape the present.
“Making a Scene: Love, Friendship, Solidarity”
— Youlendree Appasamy & Nosipho Mngomezulu
This repeats.
Durban, 2021.
Peckham.
Lozells.
Proximity without repair
breaks.
Love Under Proximity
The system ended. The conditions did not.
This entry listens to Black and Asian South Africans navigating intimacy in the present—where relation is no longer enforced by law, but still shaped by its afterlives.
What emerges is not resolution, but negotiation—
across family, history, and expectation.
“Blasian Love”
— Megha Mohan, BBC Sounds (27 min)