Bag Factory is pleased to present Residues of Proximity: One Body, Many Parts, A solo exhibition by Mosa Anita Kaiser Curated by Melusi Masike This exhibition is a product of the Young/Unframed 2026 programme. This exhibition is a poetic gesture, not of geographic distance but of bodily experience. It approaches the body as both an archival site and a site of seeing. A repository of retrieval, belonging, memory, and internal exile. Internal exile is understood here as a condition of cultural amputation, disjuncture, and disorientation, where one's relationship to memory, place, and cultural experience becomes fractured yet remains present in embodied forms. The exhibition unfolds through motifs drawn from everyday life, becoming a canvas of what was, what remains, and what is continually being remembered. It inhabits the space between the ordinary and the extraordinary, offering a quotidian rapture through acts of reenactment, reflection, and return. Vivid hues and gestures of delight coexist with ghostly underpinnings of sorrow, pain, amputation, and repair. These tensions leave traces of systemic erasure while revealing the resilience of memory and the persistence of cultural Life. At its core, the exhibition interrogates the historical construction of the body as a site of spectacle, consumption, and amusement. Yet the body presented here refuses these conditions. It is not an object for observation but an accumulation of desires, memories, wounds, and aspirations. It is a thread of hope, a drip of sorrow and joy, and an echo of continuity that persists despite fragmentation. Through these encounters, the exhibition proposes the body as a living archive, one that carries the residues of violence and care, loss and repair, while remaining a space through which alternative narratives of belonging and becoming may emerge.