The Great Rift Valley is a geological formation that runs from Southeastern Africa through Mozambique, Kenya and Ethiopia, along the Red Sea, through Jordan, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon to southern Turkey.
The Baboon Parliament emerges literally and figuratively from the rift, bringing to the surface the architectures of “deep time” that offer sites of refuge and resistance to colonisation and its afterlives.
‘We're not constrained by the geography of the Rift Valley. Instead we’re using that as a way of thinking about the broader impacts of the British Empire.’
Curatorial Team