I’ve been thinking a lot about space recently. Not the endless cosmos, the scope and size of which seem unfathomable. No, I talk here of space in a far smaller, if not more pertinent sense – the spaces in which we move, we choose to occupy and find comfort in. Here, we come across a…
Relay Jeans, The Foschini Group’s (TFG) leading denim brand, is embracing individuality and the power of being undefined. The underlying reason for this course of action and movement comes as the brand aims to demonstrate how it has changed over time, shifting from solely emphasising its utilitarian benefits to immersing itself in the local denim…
Some stories don’t have a clear beginning or clear ending. Instead, they seem to be inextricable from the depth of the middle. That’s the case with Mbali Khoza’s Native of Nowhere, displaying at C H U R C H Projects in Cape Town. I had the pleasure of sitting down with her for an iced…
The year is 2017, the building is August House. Here, established and baby artists gather ceremoniously to water their artistic gardens into bloom. I’ve been revisiting the day we met, after you ascended from the body on the 11th of August. On the afternoon our worlds first collided, I sat quietly at a tiny desk…
BUBBLEGUM X partner, Daily Paper, has released their season lookbook, Identities Rebuilt, coinciding with the Amsterdam based organisation’s 10-year anniversary. BUBBLEGUM X is an initiative by Bubblegum Club and The Bubblegum Foundation aimed at advancing Africa’s ever-growing cultural influence in global creative scenes. The initiative is a means of leveraging and transforming this expanding cultural and…
As heavy rain swept across KwaZulu Natal in April 2022 — causing floods and landslides — homes, cars and businesses were destroyed leaving unimaginable damage across all fronts. The whole of KwaZulu Natal was left impacted. While some people were able to replace some lost or damaged items, artists could not do the same. As…
The first in a series of performances by artist and choreographer Clara Delorme is called L’albâtre (Alabaster). Alabaster is a mineral or rock that is soft, often used for carving and is processed for plaster powder. In L’albâtre, the choreographer explores monochrome and invites us to examine the nature of the strange being she embodies,…
Morena boloka sechaba sa heso… What a special yet haunted place South Africa is. Thapelo ya Enoch Sontonga ents e le yona. Vuyiswa Xekatwane, June 2022 “Why is it so abstract yet tangible at the same time and all encompassing?” (Julie Nxadi). … Interlude in muffled echoes from the Wake. I had inherited her loss,…
I work with collages involving mainly the iconoclastic process of uprooting images from mass produced print media and proposing alternative realities through reconstruction of hallucinated images. My work is made with the intention to generate propaganda as a means to reject the certainty of the normal/ the reasonable often presented by hegemonic representations of ‘reliable…
After spending some time reading about African mythologies and our take on spirituality, this body of work was created as a celebration of the coming of a new spirit/guardian angel/ancestor, as well as emphasising to people that we are god-like beings and that God can manifest in human form. The sense of community that can…
* This body of work was created at the Bubblegum Studio with Q — bbythem — as the recipient of our Bubblegum Invites open call. In May 2021, Q, better known by their social media profile bbythem, won the third Bubblegum Invites (Bubblegum Invites: Makeup Artists) — an open call to makeup artists as part of…
“I am designing for anyone who is not afraid to stand out from a crowd, I am designing for anyone who does not feel obliged to follow trends. I am designing for the individuals with an authentic sense of what style actually means. No hype shit.” Yaeesh Dollie Over the past decade, Cape Town’s…
