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Outdoor art: Mankebe Seakgoe’s When the Sky Opened Up and Swallowed us Whole (2023), charcoal on canvas. Photos: Supplied
ART FUNDING

Outside the white cube, art learns to breathe again

A group exhibition in North West challenged institutional norms, inviting artists and audiences to rethink experimentation, community and artistic freedom

  • Gillian Fleischmann
8 min read
Violence: #SayHer1019 by Kilmany-Jo Liversage emphasises sorry by Penny Siopis depicts victims’ feeling of shame that often accompanies abuse.
ACTIVISM

Art of activism: 16 artists against gender violence

Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

  • Kimberley Schoeman
8 min read
Women in Khayelitsha watch a performance by Buhlebezwe Siwani, which began Any Given Sunday. (Photo: Riason Naidoo)
ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

‘Any Given Sunday’: Public art as politics in the streets of Cape Town

Performances for ‘Any Given Sunday’ shook up Cape Town’s public spaces in a decolonial gesture in 2015

  • Uzma Z Rizvi
7 min read
Jade Palmer examines the gendered expectations of domestic labour and its effect on the interfamilial dynamic in Some time in February.
ALIA FARID
Video

Working alone, together: presenting the Wits Young Artist Award 2020 winners

Vick Bester, Pebofatso Mokoena and Jade Palmer, this year’s Wits Young Artist Award winners, each engage with with the particularities of the places where they live, inviting us…

  • Amie Soudien
8 min read