“Take a walk with me” An invitation to accompany another through the paths they navigate. This exhibition extends that call, walking alongside narratives shaped by South Africa’s enduring traumas and the identities forged within them. It retraces the long walk once framed as a journey to freedom. A walk that promised unity and equality but left uneven footprints on a divided land.
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Wonder In Sonder: Take a walk with me
What We Don’t See: A Sensory Rebellion
What We Don’t See: A Sensory Rebellion explores how art moves beyond the visible, revealing a world perceived through sound, texture, rhythm, and silence. The exhibition questions the dominance of sight in the way we experience and interpret art, reimagining perception as a multisensory field where emotion, material, and memory shape the act of seeing.
The Weight of Soft Things
In Ethiopia, vulnerability is often met with silence or spiritual platitude. Feelings, especially those that are heavy, shapeless, or unresolved rarely find form, let alone space. The Weight of Soft Things brings together five emerging Ethiopian women artists who confront this absence by placing emotional life at the center of their work.
Standing As An Observer Of History
Conflict and war shape our experiences and definitions socially, and art is no different. Most artists from conflict-affected regions find their work defined by these circumstances, whether they embrace or resist this lens. Since April 2023, many Sudanese art exhibitions have been framed politically or nostalgically, but as a curator, I ask: who is thinking of the art itself? How does the environment affect visual memory and artistic production?
Oneness
Belief is firmly rooted in Black South African cultures, not only as theory, but as a way of belonging and being. Faith is nurtured and strengthened by shared practice, repeated gestures and communal bonds. The artworks shown here invite viewers to consider how belief shapes identity and how a sense of oneness grows when individuals search for meaning together. This exhibition aims to encourage us to focus on our shared human need for connection and fullness rather than the differences that exist across beliefs.
Living Archives: Ancestral Currents Between Remembering, Resonance, and Renewal
This curatorial exhibition aims to bring together African artists whose practices move through ancestral memory, spiritual lineage and the living archive. This exhibition considers how contemporary art functions as a vessel between ancestral resonance and a space of renewal. Here, this history is not only seen as a safeguard but also reshapes the way in which artists reimagine and create a sense of belonging. These artists aim to resist the confines of Eurocentric frameworks, offering African art as an evolving practice that is spiritually rooted. Rather than positioning African art as a static tradition or a symbol of postcolonial struggle, Living Archives: Ancestral currents remembering, resonance and renewal aims to invite viewers into a space of contemplation, connection, and transformation. Through a curated selection of diverse practices, the exhibition reveals how Contemporary African draw on the depth of their cultural inheritance – personal, spiritual and historical – to craft work that is complex, intimate, and resistant.
In the Between: States of Becoming
In the Between: States of Becoming is a contemporary art exhibition exploring the psychological and emotional terrain of transition moments suspended between stability and chaos, clarity and confusion. The exhibition presents a raw and resonant look at the human condition through the lens of mental health, focusing on the invisible yet transformative process of change.
In Company of Humans
In her novel En compagnie des hommes, Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo gives voice to the Baoba tree. The tree, symbol of great wisdom, speaks and awakens the memory of humanity, as a deadly and incurable virus looms and threatens the human race with extinction. In this way, Véronique Tadjo revives the African narrative tradition of giving voice to plants, animals, and other inanimate natural elements, which thus become privileged observers of the humans with whom they coexist.
Fabrics Tell Stories Too
Embo: Where We Once Knew – Onke Ngcuka
Aku Ndhl’ela Engayi Ekhaya – Phumelele Kunene
Editorial
CuratorLab
Wonder In Sonder: Take a walk with me
“Take a walk with me” An invitation to accompany another through the paths they navigate. This exhibition extends that call, walking alongside narratives shaped by South Africa’s enduring traumas and the identities forged within them. It retraces the long walk once framed as a journey to freedom. A walk that promised unity and equality but left uneven footprints on a divided land.
What We Don’t See: A Sensory Rebellion
What We Don’t See: A Sensory Rebellion explores how art moves beyond the visible, revealing a world perceived through sound, texture, rhythm, and silence. The exhibition questions the dominance of sight in the way we experience and interpret art, reimagining perception as a multisensory field where emotion, material, and memory shape the act of seeing.
The Weight of Soft Things
In Ethiopia, vulnerability is often met with silence or spiritual platitude. Feelings, especially those that are heavy, shapeless, or unresolved rarely find form, let alone space. The Weight of Soft Things brings together five emerging Ethiopian women artists who confront this absence by placing emotional life at the center of their work.
Standing As An Observer Of History
Conflict and war shape our experiences and definitions socially, and art is no different. Most artists from conflict-affected regions find their work defined by these circumstances, whether they embrace or resist this lens. Since April 2023, many Sudanese art exhibitions have been framed politically or nostalgically, but as a curator, I ask: who is thinking of the art itself? How does the environment affect visual memory and artistic production?
Oneness
Belief is firmly rooted in Black South African cultures, not only as theory, but as a way of belonging and being. Faith is nurtured and strengthened by shared practice, repeated gestures and communal bonds. The artworks shown here invite viewers to consider how belief shapes identity and how a sense of oneness grows when individuals search for meaning together. This exhibition aims to encourage us to focus on our shared human need for connection and fullness rather than the differences that exist across beliefs.
Living Archives: Ancestral Currents Between Remembering, Resonance, and Renewal
This curatorial exhibition aims to bring together African artists whose practices move through ancestral memory, spiritual lineage and the living archive. This exhibition considers how contemporary art functions as a vessel between ancestral resonance and a space of renewal. Here, this history is not only seen as a safeguard but also reshapes the way in which artists reimagine and create a sense of belonging. These artists aim to resist the confines of Eurocentric frameworks, offering African art as an evolving practice that is spiritually rooted. Rather than positioning African art as a static tradition or a symbol of postcolonial struggle, Living Archives: Ancestral currents remembering, resonance and renewal aims to invite viewers into a space of contemplation, connection, and transformation. Through a curated selection of diverse practices, the exhibition reveals how Contemporary African draw on the depth of their cultural inheritance – personal, spiritual and historical – to craft work that is complex, intimate, and resistant.
In the Between: States of Becoming
In the Between: States of Becoming is a contemporary art exhibition exploring the psychological and emotional terrain of transition moments suspended between stability and chaos, clarity and confusion. The exhibition presents a raw and resonant look at the human condition through the lens of mental health, focusing on the invisible yet transformative process of change.
In Company of Humans
In her novel En compagnie des hommes, Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo gives voice to the Baoba tree. The tree, symbol of great wisdom, speaks and awakens the memory of humanity, as a deadly and incurable virus looms and threatens the human race with extinction. In this way, Véronique Tadjo revives the African narrative tradition of giving voice to plants, animals, and other inanimate natural elements, which thus become privileged observers of the humans with whom they coexist.
Fabrics Tell Stories Too
Embo: Where We Once Knew – Onke Ngcuka
Aku Ndhl’ela Engayi Ekhaya – Phumelele Kunene
