Incantations 

This exhibition showcases female and non-binary artists that engage Incantations as a methodology in their various practices to create and formulate their own bodies of work. Pertinent in these works are how each artist intervenes in conventional representations of the female and queer body. Bell Hooks (2015) writes about the difficulties in challenging a patriarchal society and further cautions that one has to carefully plan what to say and how to say it. The artists nonetheless takes on the challenge to disrupt the dominant ways of seeing, thinking, and being that inhibits one’s ability to re-imagine, re-describe, and re-invent themselves in ways that are liberatory. 

“Incantation” (n.) finds its roots in Late Latin, specifically in “incantationem” (nominative “incantatio”), which can be translated as the “art of enchanting.” It is often understood as a sacred message, text, charm, spell, or counsel, and more literally as an “instrument of thought.” 

This exhibition works with this definition and further expands on it in the ways in which incantation can be utilised as a means of protecting, healing, affirming and re-imagining in the selected artistic practices. The exhibition thereby offers a contrapuntal reading of the cultural, spiritual, and individual perspectives that the artists bring in their respective bodies of work, and therewith starts to show artistic practice as a ritual.

GEMMA SHEPHERD | ROCHELLE NEMBHARD Bound, 2021 Photographic Print 45 x 30 cm Edition 1/3

GEMMA SHEPHERD | ROCHELLE NEMBHARD

Bound, 2021

Photographic Print

45 x 30 cm

Edition 1/3

GEMMA SHEPHERD | ROCHELLE NEMBHARD Beyond, Within, 2021 Photographic Print 120 × 80 cm Edition of 3

GEMMA SHEPHERD | ROCHELLE NEMBHARD

Beyond, Within, 2021

Photographic Print

120 x 80 cm

Edition of 3

GEMMA SHEPHERD | ROCHELLE NEMBHARD A Lifetime Of Sacrifice, 2021 Photographic Print 97 × 120 cm Edition of 3

GEMMA SHEPHERD | ROCHELLE NEMBHARD

A Lifetime Of Sacrifice, 2021

Photographic Print

97 x 120 cm

Edition of 3

HANEEM CHRISTIAN Kewpie se Kind - Cc Martinez, 2023 Felix Schoeller True Fibre 200gsm 84 × 60 cm Edition of 3

HANEEM CHRISTIAN

Kewpie se Kind – Cc Martinez, 2023

Felix Schoeller True Fibre 200gsm

84 x 60 cm

Edition of 3

HANEEM CHRISTIAN Kewpie se Kind - Wendy LaRosa, 2023 Felix Schoeller True Fibre 200gsm 60 × 84 cm Edition of 3

HANEEM CHRISTIAN

Kewpie se Kind – Wendy LaRosa, 2023

Felix Schoeller True Fibre 200gsm

60 Å~ 84 cm

Edition of 3

LEGAKWANALEO MAKGEKGENENE Mofenyi (Sethuthuntshwane IV), 2023 Digital Photograph on True Fibre Matte 100 × 67 cm Edition of 1/ 5

LEGAKWANALEO MAKGEKGENENE

Mofenyi (Sethuthuntshwane IV), 2023

Digital Photograph on True Fibre Matte

100 x 67 cm

Edition of 1/ 5

LEGAKWANALEO MAKGEKGENENE Botlola (Sethuthuntshwane II), 2023 Digital Photograph on True Fibre Matte 100 × 67 cm Edition of 1/ 5

LEGAKWANALEO MAKGEKGENENE

Botlola (Sethuthuntshwane II), 2023

Digital Photograph on True Fibre Matte

100 x 67 cm

Edition of 1/ 5

TAYHE MUNSAMY Stories around the whispering tree, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 84 × 60 cm 150 × 260 cm

TAYHE MUNSAMY

Stories around the whispering tree, 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

84 x 60 cm

150 x 260 cm

OSARU OBASEKI The Conveyer, 2022 Red earth, sand and acrylic on canvas. 182.9 × 152.4 cm

OSARU OBASEKI

The Conveyer, 2022

Red earth, sand and acrylic on canvas.

182.9 x 152.4 cm

Coated in Lines I, 2022 Bronze 56 × 23 × 14 cm

OSARU OBASEKI

Coated in Lines I, 2022

Bronze

56 x 23 x 14 cm

OSARU OBASEKI Coated in lines II, 2022 Bronze 56 × 23 × 15 cm

OSARU OBASEKI

Coated in lines II, 2022

Bronze

56 x 23 x 15 cm

HANNALIE TAUTE “Who lives here?” asked the beautiful Princess. , 2022 Photographic print on board, thread and rubber 119 × 84 cm

HANNALIE TAUTE

“Who lives here?” asked the beautiful Princess. , 2022

Photographic print on board, thread and rubber

119 x 84 cm

HANNALIE TAUTE “Last night I was kissed by oh, so handsome a man” said the princess., 2022 Photographic print on board, thread and rubber 119 × 84 cm

HANNALIE TAUTE

“Last night I was kissed by oh, so handsome a man” said the princess., 2022

Photographic print on board, thread and rubber

119 x 84 cm

SOUAD ABDELRASSOUL Unanswered Question, 2023 Acrylic on canvas 50 × 50 cm

SOUAD ABDELRASSOUL

Unanswered Question, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

50 x 50 cm

SOUAD ABDELRASSOUL Face Me, My Love, 2023 Acrylic on Canvas 50 × 50 cm

SOUAD ABDELRASSOUL

Face Me, My Love, 2023

Acrylic on Canvas

50 Å~ 50 cm

NTHABISENG BOLEDI KEKANA ‘Self ’ - recognition , 2023 Oil, pastels and gold metallic paint on linen Fabriano 70 × 50 cm

NTHABISENG BOLEDI KEKANA

‘Self ’ – recognition , 2023

Oil, pastels and gold metallic paint on linen Fabriano

70 x 50 cm

NTHABISENG BOLEDI KEKANA Untitled, 2023 Oil and gold metalic paint on canvas 59.5 × 42 cm

NTHABISENG BOLEDI KEKANA

Untitled, 2023

Oil and gold metalic paint on canvas

59.5 x 42 cm

NTHABISENG BOLEDI KEKANA Towards grace, 2023 Oil on linen Fabriano 70 × 50 cm

NTHABISENG BOLEDI KEKANA

Towards grace, 2023

Oil on linen Fabriano

70 x 50 cm

ANUSHKA KEMPKEN Evolution: Divine Guidance, 2023 Spray paint and gold leaf on woven and twisted Fabriano paper 58 × 58 cm

ANUSHKA KEMPKEN

Evolution: Divine Guidance, 2023

Spray paint and gold leaf on woven and twisted Fabriano paper

58 x 58 cm

ANUSHKA KEMPKEN Evolution: Being The Change, 2023 Spray paint and gold leaf on woven and twisted Fabriano paper 58 × 58 cm

ANUSHKA KEMPKEN

Evolution: Being The Change, 2023

Spray paint and gold leaf on woven and twisted Fabriano paper

58 x 58 cm

ANUSHKA KEMPKEN I think I like something new, ca. 2023 Mixed media on woven fabriano 30 × 42 cm

ANUSHKA KEMPKEN

Evolution: Being The Change, 2023

Spray paint and gold leaf on woven and twisted Fabriano paper

58 x 58 cm

HANNAH-ROSE FLEISHMAN People Also Ask V - IX, 2023 Lightbox 30 × 35 cm

HANNAH-ROSE FLEISHMAN

People Also Ask V – IX, 2023

Lightbox

30 x 35 cm

Kamal El-Feki Pink Elephant, 2023 Resin 143 x 73 x 33 cm

Kamal El-Feki

Pink Elephant, 2023

Resin
143 x 73 x 33 cm