1st Stellenbosch Triennale
Stellenbosch, South Africa
11 February, 2020 — 30 April, 2020
Group Exhibition
Tomorrow, There Will Be More of Us
Stellenbosch Triennale announced the first 20 participating artists for its inaugural edition, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, Bernard Akoi-Jackson and Nontobeko Ntombela, to present works that investigate the possibility of healing through engaging with the divided past, the collective present and imagined futures.
Responding to the nature of the collective destined for the curator’s exhibition, Mbongwa says, “African creatives confront us with what is possible for a renewal to happen utilising art as a lens, a course correction, a stimuli around curiosity and imagination. Through the Triennale, we bring work from the continent to the southernmost tip as an intersection of time – where the past, present and future are in dialogue.”
We are starting here, from the place that has seen us bloom and perish. We start in the South, the corner, and from here we will expand. We start here with and without, displaced and disposed – we look towards the horizon and we see Tomorrow There Will Be More Of Us. As direct extensions of history, we are remembering – through the ancestral awakening – that exhumes the ancient on a global level. We experience our imagination as a sharpened tool in our state of becoming. Our grandmother’s technology becomes the compass. So, in the newness of things, we acknowledge Africans as the first modernist through the Transatlantic Slave Route. It is here we imagine. As borders are tightening, deep migration lines etch the Mediterranean – some will mark the sea with their bodies, some will arrive as immigrant amongst other things.
Exhibiting Artists:
Bronwyn Katz, Donna Kukama, Euridice Kala aka Zaituna Kala, Hellen Nabukenya Kampala, Ibrahim Mahama, Igshaan Adams, Kaloki Nyamai, Kelvin Haizel, Kivu Ruhorahoza, Mongezi Ncaphayi, Nástio Mosquito, Patrick Bongoy, Reshma Chhiba, Ronald Muchatuta, Sethembile Msezane, Stacey Gillian Abe Kampala, Tracey Naa Koshie Thompson, Victor Ehikhamenor, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and Zyma Amien.
Photo Credit: Images Courtesy of Kelvin Haizel
Artwork
Woven Scales, 2020
Ingredients: Tropiway plantain fufu powder, sobolo, icing colour, distilled white vinegar, fermented lemon juice, glycerine, hydrogen peroxide | Dimensions: 6m x 5.6m
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