Towards Another World (2023–2025)

Towards Another World reimagines the obelisk shapes of two war monuments to the same war: the Anglo-Boer War memorial, in Plymouth, England and the Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein, South Africa which honors the thousands of women and children who died in British concentration camps. These two memorials reveal two sides to the same war at the turn of the twentieth century. In Williamson’s work, the obelisk is a monument in flux: suspended in space, draped in delicate fabrics, and with scorched branches referencing the British “scorched earth” policy. Resin-cast chocolate boxes, recalling Queen Victoria’s 1900 gift to British soldiers, glow like embers, fragments that challenge fixed histories and reflect the enduring legacies of colonialism.

Stories for Children (2023)

The embroideries in the Stories for Children series are based on the illustrations in My Anglo-Boereoorlog Storie-Inkleurboek, a colouring book bought in the gift shop at the
Anglo-Boer War Museum (now referred to as the South African War) in Bloemfontein in the late 1980s. The pictures and text in the book attempt to explain the horrors of that war to a child. Echoing the pictures in the colouring book, the images are hand-embroidered in black cotton onto white organdie, a labor intensive process that recalls the making of handmade toys by women in internment camps.

Sue Williamson (b. 1941, Lichfield, UK; lives and works in Cape Town) is known for conceptually driven works that explore memory, resistance, and social justice. The artist emigrated with her family to South Africa in 1948. Trained as a printmaker, Williamson also works in installation, photography and video. In the 1970s, she started to make work which addressed social change during apartheid and by the 1980s Williamson was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country’s political struggle.

Select solo exhibitions include Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2025); The Box Museum, Plymouth (2023); and National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2002). Select group exhibitions include Fenix Museum, Rotterdam (2025); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020–23); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2019); Biennale di Venezia (2013, 1993); Istanbul Biennial (2011); and Havana Biennale (2009, 1994, 1992). Her work is held in collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Founded in 2004, Galerie Dominique Fiat has established itself as a true hub of artistic innovation, exploring a wide range of genres and media, with a focus on artistic scenes from the “Global South”.

Its resolutely transdisciplinary approach has enabled the early discovery of emerging talents, such as Hicham Berrada, Safaa Erruas, Anita Dube, and Sue Williamson. A pioneer in Paris, the gallery was also the first to present the Californian Light & Space movement.

Today, after twenty years in the heart of the Marais, the gallery opens a new chapter in an atypical space, nestled in the vibrant 10th arrondissement.