This text by Zak Derinda was published in 1983 as a preface to the catalog of the traveling exhibition "Art Against Apartheid", which later toured the world, intending to end up in South Africa and become a museum against Apartheid. Well-known writers, painters, and sculptors from all over the world participated in the exhibition.

"Apartheid - this should remain the name from now on, the only name in the world for the last of the racisms. It should remain, but one day it will only be for the memory of humanity.

A memory in advance, perhaps the time given for this Exhibition. Simultaneously urgent and timely, it is exhibited there, risking time, gambling and surpassing the bet. Without relying on any present, it only gives the prediction, in the way of painting, very close to silence, and the retrospection of the future for which Apartheid will be the name of something that was ultimately abolished. Then encircled, abandoned in this silence of memory, the name will resonate completely alone, it will have become an unused utterance. The thing that it will be today will no longer be.

But Apartheid, has it not always been the archive of the unnamable?

Therefore, the exhibition is not a presentation. Nothing is offered in the present, nothing that can be presented, but only, in the mirror of retrospection of tomorrow, the blessed last of the racisms, the late racism. [...]"

(from the book text)