Barcelona, Delft, Barcelona, Lavender Hill, Athlone: have we really thought about the ironies inherent in the way South Africa's suburbs and informal settlements have been christened?

Svea Josephy has spent months photographing places that are identically named yet worlds apart, and the provocatively named Twin Town exhibition at the
Bell-Roberts gallery is the fruit of this labour.

Focusing on the largely impoverished settlements surrounding Cape Town, Josephy traces a complex set of relationships -- both differences and parallels -- with places or events after which South African settlements are named.

Twin Town is an exciting exhibition that throws up unexpected trans-national connections within the everyday, and provides a fresh perspective from which to view the old issues of migrancy, forced removals, resettlement and subeconomic living conditions.

Bell Roberts, tomorrow (wednesday) from 16hoo - 21hoo