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Moshekwa Langa

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Always imbued with themes about travel and what is abstract about those memories this collection features figurative works executed with mixed media, from ink from ball point pens, water colours and pastel, utilised the depth and forms of the works to articulate vignettes about narrativised memories as artistic bounty.

Themba Tsotsi on the work of the South African artist Moshekwa Langa

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Wallen Mampondera

MM Hurongwa (Plan) (2024)

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Hanna Noor Mohammed

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Ruth Ige

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The works are captured with flowing feminine impact. This emphasized femininity, playing with a dark hue of blue expresses and counters the traditional light and grandiose contexts that masculine depictions of the divine are depicted in the Western context.

Themba Tsotsi on the work of Ruth Ige
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Ravelle Pillay: History Hammered by Time

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At the heart of this exhibition is the sense of history that is intimate and personal. It enabled the artist to extend these sentiments to discourse what is political without it enveloping what is delicate about personal history.

Themba Tsotsi about the work of Ravelle Pillay

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