28.10.2025–01.05.2026 // The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Diane Victor exhibition, curated by Basak Senova and Johan Thom, takes place at The Bridge Gallery, Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria. The School of the Arts in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria presents this solo exhibition by Diane Victor curated by Basak Senova and Johan Thom. The exhibition unfolds through different bodies of work that engage with memory, loss, and what lies beneath the soil. Victor draws intensely from her personal background in South Africa, where, owing to her father’s profession, she was raised in a mining environment. Mining, with its multifaceted ties to labour, landscape, and exploitation, has become a formative source for her artistic practice. In this context, Victor explores interconnected themes of violence and layered, often buried histories from a feminist perspective. To evoke the physical and symbolic weight of extraction, Victor works with natural materials such as smoke, dust and cobalt. By grounding her works for this exhibition in these materials, she links her personal history to broader narratives of contested resources, human struggle, material transformation and endangered ecologies.