Everyone knows that the most inspiring moment of any sports movie is when the protagonist and their team is down, with only one dreaded final minute to save the game they’ve been training the whole movie for. The tense cuts between different players’ faces, the scoreboard and the descending timer are the makings of so…
I am increasingly drawn to the narrative capacity of objects – especially those repurposed from my immediate surroundings, that morph from utility to aesthetic, through processes of grafting imaginary and visible realities – as embodying compound ideas and multiple antecedents (both formally and conceptually) yet are not manifest. That are in fact resistant to overt…
When I first opened the link to The Temple’s new EP Lusaka, I was blown away by the effervescence of their music. While the release harkened back to the optimistic beat of 1990’s Kwaito, it’s dense, swirling production is utterly contemporary, clearly in conversation with the hardness of Trap and Gqom. But unlike those intense,…
Describing herself as a visual artist who uses photography as her chosen medium, Gowun Lee explores social issues in a conceptual manner. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and her work has been included in exhibitions around the world, the most recent being the 2018 Aperture Summer Open titled…
An empty clinical space. Naked with years of raped neglect finds a new meaning. Inhabited by the sounds of abstract ambient looping that resembles industrial clanging and the movement of water. In the middle, stands a light source – a life source. The floor is strewn with white paper. From outside she appears to move…
Nikki Zakkas is a young up-and-coming photographer from Johannesburg. She studied fashion at Lisof before moving into photography, it isn’t surprising then that her interests lie in ‘fashion portraiture and street style”. Zakkas is one of many photographers focusing her lense on the cities vibrant streetstyle, what sets her apart though and really establishes her…
