Past
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Alexandra Karakashian
in on itself 15 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Collapsed implosion concentrates matter and energy retracts monoliths into tightened crumpled bodies the core collapsed in on itself exceedingly quickly hole where they said they’d burn undyingly so empty it breathes becoming futures even god can’t see. The excerpt above is taken from Aromatic Achromatic, a poem written in collaboration... Read more -
Kudzanai Chiurai
We Live in Silence 13 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Drawing from the previous series - Revelations (2011) and Genesis [Je n’isi isi] (2016) - as well as Mauritanian director Med Hondo’s seminal piece of cinema Soleil O (1969), the film-based works presents an introspective journey into colonialism at the dawn of independence. Incorporating religious and populist iconography, Chiurai’s work... Read more -
Sergio Lucena & Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
Common Place 19 Jul - 8 Sep 2018 Common Place, a two-artist exhibition featuring new works by Brazilian painter Sergio Lucena and South African pluridisciplinary artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. It starts with a gaze of an inescapable faith: solitude. The artist succumbs to the emptiness of the matter despite a perpetual struggle to fill a void. The image... Read more -
Maïmouna Guerresi
Aisha In Wonderland 19 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 Aisha in Wonderland is an allegorical journey that centers around themes dear to Guerresi and links to the charm and the value of the mystic and veiled body’s diversity. It is the representation of the spiritually strong woman who, through her own identity, is able to dissolve the distinctions present... Read more -
Zohra Opoku
Harmattan Tales 19 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 Harmattan Tales is a utopian exploration of the cityscape by connecting to Muslim women in Accra, Ghana and discovering life in the city through their lens. Opoku explores these women's personal beliefs and narratives, their acts of veiling and unveiling inherent to their daily rituals, movements in and out of... Read more
