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Photo London 2024
Discovery Platform 15 - 19 May 2024 Each of or four artists is engaged in the art of storytelling, throwing a light on personal and national African histories and geographies through portraiture and landscape photography. Senzeni Marasela lives and works in Soweto, South Africa. A cross-disciplinary artist who explores performance, photography, video, prints, and mixed-medium installations involving... Read more -
Nervous Lines
Felix Shumba and Martin Seeds 8 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 The exhibition explores the effects (during and enduring) of conflict from the parallel perspectives of two people from opposite hemispheres and seemingly disparate backgrounds, with the shared experience of growing up in countries subjected to the violence of war and occupation by external forces. It asks questions about the physical... Read more -
This Kind Of Light
10 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 This Kind Of Light is an exhibition of Photography by six artists from South Africa and Sussex addressing themes of identity, relationships, place and alternative ways of being and creating. The selection of photographs cuts across studio portraits, street photography, documentary and fashion and explores technique, process and scale.
The title of the exhibition is taken from an interview with the great Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera. Vera, who died in 2005 of AIDS related meningitis, was engaged throughout her life with issues around identity and gender and confronted many taboo subjects in her work. Of her practice she said: “Writing is light, a radiance that captures everything in a fine profile. This light searches and illuminates, it is a safe place from which to uncover the emotional havoc of our experience. Light is a bright warmth which heals. Writing can be this kind of light. Within it I do not hide. I travel bravely beyond that light into the shadows that [it] creates and in that darkness it is also possible to be free...” The photographers in the exhibition are also engaging with the practice of telling stories written with light.
Nonzuzo Gxekwa (b. 1981) is a self-taught photographer from Ladysmith, KwaZulu Natal, now living and working in Johannesburg. Her work is a celebration and exploration of the city of Joburg and its people, describing her adopted home as a place of resilience, beauty and extremes. Her approach to photography favours the everyday over the spectacular; focusing the camera on what is around her as well as herself. Guided by intuition and unerring prescience, she seems to notice moments of surprising beauty in mundane, everyday scenes before they have occurred.
Thembela Dick (Cape Town, 1986) is a black photographer and filmmaker and LGBTIAQ+ activist. They first studied photography with Zanele Muholi at the Market Photo Workshop (Newtown, Johannesburg) before facilitating numerous media trainings and workshops. In 2017, they co-founded Terra Dick Production (TD/P). Known for their work as a documentarian. Dick’s still photographs for this exhibition are taken from their project - Khwela Ngam - in which they composed intimate portraits and imagery, contrarily documenting the real lifestyle of a queer. With an understanding of classical interpretations of women as beautiful unrealistic and fantastical creatures, the artist portrays figures categorized as strange in their most normal state, the natural nakedness familiar to all humans.
Troye Alexander (b. 1990) is based in Johannesburg. He was born into and grew up in radical Christian conservative communities for most of his life and this directed his views on masculinity, sexuality, relationships towards more traditional norms. Through his work he challenges his own opinions around these issues and hopes to reform his own narrative in order to address his trauma and come to terms with his identity. Troye took his first photographs at the age of 28 and began experimenting with various forms of film photography and dark room processes. He is drawn to the expanse of techniques that he is able to apply to his work through this medium and in the ways in which the printed image can be presented as unique art objects.
Kwazokuhle Phakathi (b.1998) is a visual artist from Umlazi, Durban. His work addresses issues of identity, belonging and space. He aims to explore the complex duality of black queer life in relation to ‘community’ and the personal journey of self-discovery, set in the political landscape that is the South African township. His work is a response to an inner dialogue examining elements of manhood, intimacy, femininity and freedom. Images from Kwazokuhle’s ongoing projects Star!bani? and In The Vastness, as well as Almost Everything Has Happened (2022-23) are included in the exhibition.
Soham Joshi (b.2000) is an Indian visual artist living in Brighton, UK. They use alternative photographic techniques to explore urbanity and identity. He is interested in the close connections between people, the photographic material, and the urban environment. Be it the human body or architecture, Soham's work celebrates the forms of the subjects that are being photographed. Images from a new and ongoing body of work: Camera and The Queer Image are presented in the exhibition.
Kobi Orion is a West Sussex-based photographer, journalist & creative director. They look at culture, music and fashion through image and text. They also run a conversation platform called ‘Kobi Talks’. Their work is inspired by and seeks to inspire their generation’s creatives, with a focus on the black and queer community.
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London Art Fair - Encounters Platform
Material Matters 2 17 - 21 Jan 2024 Senzeni Marasela lives and works in Soweto, South Africa. A cross-disciplinary artist who explores photography, video, prints, and mixed-medium installations involving textiles and embroidery, her work deals with history, memory, and personal narrative, emphasising historical gaps and overlooked figures. We are showing five new works from Marasela's most recent series:... Read more -
REFRACTIONS: Beyond What Meets The Eye
Jaffar Aly and Sam Wootto 20 Oct - 20 Nov 2023 This exhibition seeks to reveal two artists’ deep reflection and representations of people’s internal lives, monologues and (self-) interventions. With the eyes as a window to the soul, both Jaffar Aly + Sam Wootton, though opposing aesthetic and technical practices, have been able to interpret people intensely and vividly through... Read more -
Sapele Neon Boy
Joshua Uvieghara: 23 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Joshua Uvieghara approaches painting with a visionary perspective that revolves around the interplay of colour and the materiality of paint. His creative process involves extracting structures from personal anecdotes and childhood recollections, allowing subjects to emerge organically. Uvieghara's fascination lies in the visual potential of painting, constructing works that invoke... Read more -
Spirit On The Water
Hermann Niebuhr 17 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 The paintings in Niebuhr's series Spirit on the Water were born of separation and longing when the artist, Hermann Neibuhr, was living in Johannesburg and his partner was on the Cape Coast. Most mornings she would send him a photograph taken on her walks by the lagoon or the ocean.... Read more -
Ballade
Michelle Sank 15 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 The remarkable images are accompanied in the gallery by a specially commissioned essay by the writer Alexandra Dodd: The strange porousness between place and person is one of the prime magnetic aspects of Michelle Sank’s images. Whether photographed in the urban public terrain or within the private realm of people’s... Read more -
Photo London 2023
Baudouin Mouanda, Michelle Sank, KB Mpofu 10 - 14 May 2023 Read more -
Bombs And Broken Glass
Brian Britton 28 Apr - 10 Jun 2023 With simplicity of design, detachment of tone and a paired down colour pallet Brian Britton shows artworks of warfare and destruction as well as peacetime and repair. But why does an Artist paint bombs? And why especially, do they paint bombs devoid of any context that they themselves play out... Read more -
About Hands
Photography and Sculpture 9 Mar - 4 Apr 2023 ABOUT HANDS
Thursday 9 March to 4 April
Opening evening 6-9pm on 9 March
Agenda Brown // Olu Atere // Kerry Lemon // Arabel Lebruson Read more -
Theistic Craft
Irvin Pascal 9 Feb - 4 Mar 2023 The Artist’s bold use of a limited colour palette and enigmatic repeating motifs, shapes and symbols produces an uncompromising effect. Undeniably powerful, these signature markings and gestures are met with an equally profound reverence for his chosen materials that imbues his work with sincere emotion and a delicate sensitivity Known... Read more -
Encounters at London Art Fair
London Art Fair 17 - 22 Jan 2023 Georgina Maxim re-forms handed down clothing into abstract objects through the healing action of stitching. In Zimbabwe the practice of handing down is a ritually symbolic gesture in which the sacred energy of the garment is released by “pricking” with a needle. Maxim both plays with and respects these traditions... Read more -
R/EVOLUTION
Jenny Mustill + Ghada Chamma 17 Nov - 4 Dec 2022 The exhibition is part of an ongoing series of conversations at Koop Projects between an African artist (Ghada Chamma) and an artist based in Sussex (Jenny Mustill). The artworks are explorations of the space between the conscious and unconscious; they are expressions of memory, imagination and movement. For Jenny Mustill,... Read more -
Le Ciel De Saison
Baudouin Mouanda 6 Oct - 10 Nov 2022 This remarkable body of work questions reality with singularity, humour and humanity. The concept was born amidst confinement during the pandemic when Mouanda decided to construct striking mise en scène that speak of the catastrophic effects of flooding, bringing to light how deeply vulnerable Africa is to environmental degradation and... Read more -
Aftermath
Peter Mammes 8 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Through his artwork Peter Mammes aims to surpass language barriers posed by the written and spoken word and develop a new and comprehensive way to visually relay complex ideas. Inspired by patterns sourced on his travels, Peter loads his highly nuanced artwork with intricate symbols, graphic decorations, imagery and a... Read more -
Calls To Mind
Fanie Buys and Calum-Louis Adams 15 Jul - 12 Aug 2022 Through Sculpture, Print and Painting the exhibition navigates methods of borrowing, processing, recalling - even projecting - when presenting people, moments and hometowns as (art) objects. Read more -
Gutter Rainbows II - Going into the world
Johnson Zuze 9 - 26 Jun 2022 Zuze's work originates from garbage dumps where he collects urban waste. Under his hands it emerges into the world in wonderful forms, artistic and creative sculptures of birds and animals and insects. Each sculpture is implanted with interesting items – bottles, jars, containers, cosmetic and surgical instruments. These reflect colour... Read more -
Loose Ends
15 Apr - 29 May 2022 Georgina Maxim creates textile sculptures from previously worn clothing, transcribing distinct moments in time, remembering experiences and conversations (real and imagined) and exploring her own psychological landscapes. Her work is a powerful act of self-healing, undertaken through the laborious repetition of dhungemutunge, her haphazard, looping signature stitching technique. The finished... Read more -
Found/Fragments
Group Exhibition 5 Mar - 3 Apr 2022 Ronex Ahimbisbwe, Hamed Ouattara, Justin Gope and Johnson Zuze are four artists based in Africa who work with found materials. Inherent in their bodies of work are themes of sustainability and mending and the potential for reincarnation inside everyday objects that most of us see as 'old news'. Each artist... Read more -
Is Everything Okay?
Patrick Tagoe Turkson 8 Feb - 1 Mar 2022 Patrick Tagoe-Turkson uses the by-products and waste materials from commercial fishing and industrial production systems in his work. He is known for his large scale wall sculptures made from flip flops - turning this most humble and ubiquitous form of throwaway footwear into intricate kaleidoscopic sculptures that play with the... Read more -
Through Colour
Kemptown Christmas Pop Up 27 Nov - 20 Dec 2021 Skauge Sanchez Ceramics Paintings Brighton Read more
