Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology
explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial
history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and
documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers
of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling
from Cape Town to the Schomburg Center in New York, Zahra Patterson's Chronology reveals and revels in fragments of the past-personal and the present-political.