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A chance gallery stop becomes an intimate encounter with Amogelang Maepa’s sensual, emotionally charged exploration of fleeting desire and lasting residue
AMOGELANG MAEPA

A ‘One-Night Stand’ with Amogelang Maepa

A chance gallery stop becomes an intimate encounter with Amogelang Maepa’s sensual, emotionally charged exploration of fleeting desire and lasting residue

  • Unathi Kondile
4 min read
Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration
ART EXHIBITION

Documenting a vanishing present: Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s ‘Group Show’

Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration

  • David Mann
7 min read
Deliberate mongrelisation: Yinka Shonibare has put on a show that juxtaposes an electic mix of culture to celebrate the restitution of African artefacts and acknowledge our disconnect relationship with the past. Photo: Michael Hall
AFRICAN AESTHETICS

Shonibare celebrates Africa’s contribution to modernism

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare offers us a mongrelised vision for the future with his new hybrid forms

  • Alexandra Dodd
8 min read