Traces in the Still Air, an installation by Lerato Motaung transliterates the unseen space grief and loss occupy in the recesses of memory as a new identity is carooned. This is the first installation-based exhibition from the artist whose artistic practice continues to examine interplays between individual and collective stories and is centrally concerned with…
Natalie Paneng’s Ke Thlogo (2023) installation stood out at the STEVENSON exhibition, I Miss Myself The Most. Paneng’s installation features a suspended chair with a miniature house, alongside a metaphorical Room Divider within a space reminiscent of familiar South African homes. With its cleverly kitsch aesthetic and irreverent play on scale, the installation subtly blurs…
90s nostalgia has been permeating mass popular, media and fashion culture(s) for a little over a while now — with a little over a while being 5 years or so. Perhaps this has something to do with the global spread of Pan African media cultures through the rise of Nollywood and subsequent new media cultures…
“When a woman is born, she’s a daughter that opens the door of heaven for her father. When the daughter gets married she fulfils half of the religion of her husband. When the wife gives birth, paradise for her children lies at her feet” writes the Cape Town-based creative duo of Faatimah Allie and Ya’eesh…
The glorious, infamous ‘90s… a decade that some of us were born in and a decade that some of us were lucky enough to have truly experienced. In the world of fashion trends tend to be ciclicli so, what goes around comes back around. We’ve seen it within almost every decade belonging to the 20th…
Tara McAuliffe is a young analogue photographer from the Mother City whose work, and the intricacies thereof, shine well beyond her years. Her images shine in softness and sensitivity — creating scenarios in which it often feels like you aren’t just observing these scenes but that somehow — you’ve experienced them before. This powerful sense…
How are memories created and remembered in the mind and felt within the body? What happens to our perception of self, home, and knowing as we move through spaces and places of significance?…These notions require an understanding of how we “hear” the past and re‐evoke our acoustic memories as we move and act through our environment. “How…
Living through historical moments has the special ability to make us contemplate our own impermanence. The impermanence of even the most character shaping moments — by virtue of them being moments — is Time’s threat to our wilting bodies. Hence, the social construction of legacy. We want to believe that we, or an extension of…
Cape Town based multidisciplinary artist Manie Fagodien, needs no introduction especially to those in the creative and skate culture scenes of our beautiful Mother City. It is his work under his Tough Love moniker — in particular, stretching as far back as 2018 — that has drawn a strong emotional response from me. There is…
Cape Town originating and based four piece band, The World of Birds, have released a music video for their pocket full of sunshine single titled “Open Up”. The band which was originally known as Nic Preen & the World of Birds, is fronted by Preen who also forms part of Al Bairre’s ensemble. The song…
Winner of this year’s African Fashion International’s Fastrack programme Sindisile Mbobo, with his label Name Brand, plans to build a purpose-driven brand. For him, clothing is the medium through which he can make a positive impact on people’s lives, by focusing on functionality and problem solving as the foundation for his designs. I interviewed him…
“It all started at 17 Just trying to fit in the scene All my friends are gone I’m still trying to be someone” I’ve always thought that being in a band must be addictive. Once the bug bites, it seems impossible for musicians to stop getting together to try and make some magic together. Only…
