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Dikotlolo and other belongings in Lerato Lodi’s Morapedi Exhibition In photographs of our grandmothers, decades before our cries alerted Mother Nature of our arrival, if you look in their eyes you will find us in the corners. It is because our grandmothers exited the womb, entered the Earth and their bodies became entrances to life […]Read More
Muofhe who loves herself so much it terrifies the world One late evening in 2019, I attended Upile Chisala’s reading of her anthology titled Nectar. And the words that come from places within her that we can only reach on pages are still housed in my heart. Many weeks after that one late evening in […]Read More
When giant trees fall, they rise in Mondli Kunene’s Art Our birth is the rebirth of the people who lived before we did. We see this in art, dance to it in song and recite it in poetry. Visual artist and educator Mondli Kunene (MONDLIART) does not want us to forget those who came before […]Read More
A look into Lethabo Huma’s visual art journey Art is personal because what lies at its core is everything embedded in the artist. Art is thoughts, trauma, emotions and memories that find rest on canvases. In addition, visual diary pages create room for conceptual ideas born from the artist’s reality. It is never just a […]Read More
A Sowetan Photographer We are people who are moved by imagery. We see photographs and write down the stories told by the visuals. This is us writing down a story on the photographs Banele Mhlanga (@nizi.jpg) takes. However, this story that we are sharing with you is one narrated by Banele himself. We are just […]Read More
The works of the Goya of the township Francisco Goya was one of the most influential and important Spanish painters whose art has left legacies for generations to come. Dumile Feni was the Goya of the Township. His work was not important, it is because his legacy lives on through the documentation of his expression. […]Read More
From a drawing to embroidery What begins as pencil on paper in a sketchbook ends as wool in a choir with needle framed and hung on walls in bedrooms and comfort spaces. We are multifaceted S’miso Skosana’s hands bring to life faces in between the worlds of abstract, portraiture and figurative art. The subjects of […]Read More
Like a clock, his life comes full circle in Meyer’s art When we walked into the Circa Gallery this morning, the first painting that depicted Nelson Mandela’s life is one of him playing with two other children on grassland in what we imagine is the soil of the Eastern Cape. And like the hands of […]Read More
Mary Sibande’s Sophie Mary Sibande’s work tells the tales of our mothers who spend the days of their lives being selfless and all loving beings. When I first read about her work, I was sitting at the back of my visual art class in my matric year and felt seen; I felt seen through the […]Read More
Only If You Look Closely We came across her work while looking for our next exhibition and felt we had to share our interpretation of her work. Her title made things easier for us; it provided us the lens to see the work through her eyes. Without it, we would probably misinterpret the message she […]Read More
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