Central Saint Martins art student Favour Jonathan is documenting her hairstyles in the most unconventional way – with the use of passport photographs. Favour has been taking photographs of her new hairdos at a photo booth over the past few months, and has collated them in an ongoing series titled A Statement of Pride. “We’re…
Africa’s representation has been exhausting – it’s typically about poverty and her friends, disease, unemployment and corruption. From the West, Africa is every NGOs wet dream or just one long sad story. Now being raised in Sweden with strong Ethiopian and Eritrean roots, Teddy Goitom and Senay Berhe knew the pitiful narrative. It all changed when…
FAKA, the duo made up of Desire Marea and Fela Gucci explores a combination of mediums including sound, performance, video and photography. These are the tools they use to unpack themes central to their own experiences, resulting in the construction of a low-fi, eclectic aesthetic that communicates the liberation and reimagination of queer bodies. Their…
“When books are scarce, people are knowledge” This is a quote from an email interview I had with Bangalore-based writer and activist Achal Prabhala. It is an introduction to the thinking behind the Oral Citations Project – a project he was involved in which explored alternative methods of citation for Wikipedia and ways to redefine…
Michel-Rolph Trouillot in his book Silencing the Past: The Power and the Production of History interrogates ideas about the history and pastness, demonstrating how positions of power silence certain voices from History. He points to how oppressive, destructive and inhuman interpretations of people of colour led to colonial powers not being able to imagine histories…
“Militarized urbanism” – a term coined by geographer Stephan Graham. A term that describes the existence in South African cities, and is lived through the ubiquity and perceived necessity of concrete and electrified boundaries, pin codes, guard posts and CCTV. INFINITY STUDIO, a residency curated by Bubblegum Club and CUSS, will see invited artists from…
Traditional framing broken and carefully pieced together. The cutting off of feet in a frame, blowing them up and lending them their own image – making them carry their own worth. Soft hazy, dreamlike images are painted. Jarred Figgins strikes the balance between careful contemplation and haphazard play with his photographic work. With images that…
Every fantasy world needs carefully-crafted environments for characters to roam. The art of envisioning a world that does not exist, and then making it appear real. It draws on the ability to understand movement, as well as how people, nature and man-made elements interact with each other in real life. In thinking about the creation of…
Muted tones. Desaturated colours. The word kaas on caps and cricket hats. Washing lines carefully coated with white articles of clothing. A youthful face navigating different spaces within Mitchell’s Plein. We are introduced to the setting of a new fashion capsule editorial, zine style. From the creators of ‘Still Not Joshy Pascoe’ a new project…
Multimedia artist Sondra Perry‘s most recent exhibition at the Bridget Donahue Gallery speaks to the larger thematic explorations that tie all her work together – the exploration of digital technology and identity. The installation titled IT’S IN THE GAME ‘17 or Mirror Gag for Vitrine and Projection, 2017 is centred around the projection of a video within a…
“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.” ― Søren Kierkegaard The School of Anxiety (SoA) is positioned as a collaborative space of (un)learning. Conceptually derived from psychological notions of ‘anxiety’ and references the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s text The Concept of Dread (1844). However, it extends beyond the…
“Reading silences, rereading denials, deciphering edited out material and actively pouring over existent African Studies scholarship about intimacies, erotics, sexualities, pleasure, desire, and friendships is critical. This would avail the skills, methodologies and theories to unmute, unsee, and unlearn the outright erasure of multiple forms of evidence of queerness.” – Stella Nyazi Texts lie scattered…
