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
Beyond, Within, 2021
Photographic Print
120 x 80 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 x 60 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 x 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 x 60 cm
150 x 260 cm
OSARU OBASEKI
The Conveyer, 2022
Red earth, sand and acrylic on canvas.
182.9 x 152.4 cm
OSARU OBASEKI
Coated in Lines I, 2022
Bronze
56 x 23 x 14 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 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 x 84 cm
SOUAD ABDELRASSOUL
Unanswered Question, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 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 x 50 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 x 50 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 x 58 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 x 35 cm
Kamal El-Feki
Pink Elephant, 2023
Resin
143 x 73 x 33 cm