Alexandra Dodd
Alexandra Dodd is a multi-genre writer and editor who has contributed texts to numerous books, art catalogues, monographs and exhibition projects that bring together visual, literary and archival cultures – particularly in “post”-colonial, “post”-apartheid and “post”-traumatic contexts. These include The interpreters: South Africa’s new non-fiction (Soutie Press, 2025), Johannes Phokela: Only Sun in the sky knows how I feel (a lucid dream) (Zeitz MOCAA, 2023) and An anthology of non-conformism: Rebel wom!n, words, ways and wonders (DIO Press, 2024).
She is the author of David Goldblatt: The last interview (Steidl, 2019), the editor of Nicola Brandt’s The distance within (Steidl, 2025) and a co-editor of Stockholm cosmologies (Liljevalchs, 2025) and Radical solidarity: A reader (Zeitz MOCAA, 2023), among others.
She holds a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a PhD in Literature from the University of Cape Town.
She is drawn to texts with an essayistic, social-documentary heft, exploring themes like embodiment, memoir, social spectres, emergent ecologies, interspecies subjectivity and the connections between human and more-than-human life worlds.
Deaccessioned: a review
2026-06-08"Deaccessioned is a pristine and feral exhibition, currently on show at Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch. Its curators, Lizabé Lambrechts and Nicola Deane, have dared to break through a cultural resistance to decay and become more intimate with its many strange valences as an omnipresent social and existential force."