This was the only all South African show on the Biennale, curated by Colin Richards, whose theme of "Graft" with its many meanings led the young artists he chose to some interesting resolutions. Overall, it is one of the strongest shows on the Biennale. ...

In the central gallery is perhaps the strangest graft of all - Alan Alborough's provocative arrangement of dried and salted elephant ears suspended like rows of flags from the four central columns of the gallery, held in position with steel carpenter's clamps. Between each pair of columns a metal shelf is suspended on which repose two elephant's feet, turned upside down, the rounded surfaces worn by a lifetime of walking, and still deeply ingrained with the soil of the bush.

The piece is curiously repulsive - one of the most ridiculed of colonial souvenirs were the ashtrays mounted on the lower half of an elephant leg - and this display of the still beautiful parts of this most noble of animals in combination with the steel of industry is a most uncomfortable reminder of the price exacted from Africa by the coming of the white man. ...