A quick search on the internet will reveal that: entropic is having a tendency to change from a state of order to a state of disorder. What does it mean when we take this adjective and use it to describe an exhibition? With Life in the Entropics, Makandal examines the disorder of human activity and how…
The group exhibition Emphatic Whispers has an interest in the possibility that art has to make people more empathetic and to change the way in which we relate to others. This exhibition cherishes art-making in a way that creates shared experience–experiences that are empathetic. It is explained that “through the artistic process, audience imagination, and…
Unearthing – a solo exhibition by Namibian artist Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi. The walls of Goethe-Institut‘s exhibition space are systematically dotted with photographs, maps and text that reflect on the unresolved trauma present in Namibia today. This trauma is a build up from pre-colonial times, German colonial rule, the South African occupation and apartheid, the Namibian…
And at one point she is sitting on the floor, Legs crossed over each other on the side as she spreads glitter across her open chest Wound of womanhood, she wants to say, – man’s boon. The next moment she is screaming into white cloth, dragging it around The grey mosaic surface on the 7th…
Despite the many lamentations about the youth being lazy, narcissistic and only interested in selfie culture, today’s youth is in many ways bold, inquisitive and self-starting with a heightened awareness of intersectional politics. Many young people are thinking deeply about things that affect their lives and are constantly working towards more critical and more inclusive…
Aspect ratio; understood as the fine balance between an image and a two-dimensional plane becomes a question of ontology. Televisions are replaced with computer screens and yet these screens are slowly discarded for more captivating mediums. There is a risk that surfaces like a blister on the skin. Will aspect ratio face extinction as a…
Ketu Malesa describes himself as a “fine artist interested in the intersection of performance, sculpture, collage and costume design.” Originating from Rustenburg in the North West, Ketu’s work speaks to the creation of a local identity of Johannesburg. “I feel like that’s what my work tries to research and uncover is the true texture of…
Sparked from a conversation about feelings of displacement within the South African art landscape, Kutti Collective was solidified. Built from a place of loving, understanding and wanting to create a safe space, the group now consists of artists, curators, writers and photographers who know each other through a variety of connection points. I had an…
The graphic designer and illustrator Hannah Shone describes her creativity as an affinity to art and visual learning that she has possessed since childhood. She describes her path to self-fulfilment via design and illustration as paved by steps that started with taking art in high school. After a brief detour to study journalism she came…
Artists Rosie Mudge and Sitaara Stodel are ruminating on loss, belonging, and a search for reality in a sea of unstable memories. The tree, or rather two trees, take centre stage in their latest collaborative exhibition by the same name. The exhibition takes its name from Rosa Lyster’s poem ‘Another two trees’. I want to…
I am an artist of my time I think that’s the only way to accurately describe myself. I depict, reinterpret, reimagine everything going on right now and my own experiences as an artist, as a person, as a female in South Africa. Shala The Unicorn is a fine artist who describes her art as flowing…
The disintegration of the human mind; unpacking loss, violence, isolation and grief. The post-modernist work Crave is a poetic achievement directed by interdisciplinary performing arts practitioner Francesco Nassimbeni. A text characterized by complexity it is simultaneously layered with visualisations of beauty. An exercise aimed at laying bare the truth, horror and the sublime tease into…
