V E R S E

Curated by Megan Mc Namara

10.03.2022 - 21.04.2022

Main gallery

Exploring conversations around language and text in contemporary art practice, this exhibition seeks to deconstruct the ways in which we convey personal and geographical histories throughout the African continent. The title V E R S E speaks to two literary terms, one the poetic, a space for language to speak in a metaphorical and nuanced manner, and the other speaks of a biblical sense.

Throughout the African continent, much of the language we have been provided with has come from the colonizing West. This exhibition speaks of the more critical sense, and explores works that deny the Western narrative and instead examine alternate methods of employing our own definitions of what the telling of culture and history on the continent can look like. No longer imagined, but carving a new identity, these could look like love letters, performances, video art, installations.

Participating artists: Megan Mc Namara, Mitchell Messina, Thuli Gamedze, Brett Charles Seiler and Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose, Lucus Ngoma, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa