Offcuts - Association for Visual Arts (Group Exhibition)
My contributions to then “Offcuts” group show delves into the intimate relationship between material and meaning, exploring the language that materials speak when allowed their own narrative. Featuring works that confront themes of home, loss, and renewal, this exhibition sees artists engage with materials that carry their own histories—plaster, wax, dust, and even sandpaper—each pointing to the transient and resilient nature of the everyday. Guided by phrases like “your house is on fire—what are you going to take?” and “you are supposed to be sad at a funeral,” the artists reimagine the boundaries between object and art, infusing each piece with a sense of shared vulnerability and reflection.
2024 Learn More
Into Thin Air + The Memory of a Map
Into Thin Air + The Memory of a Map (2021) reflects my exploration of space, movement, and the shadows left by structures of whiteness and colonial history. In Into Thin Air, I examine how whiteness seeps in, filling the air and embedding itself in subtle and grand ways, even in places I call my own. The work captures echoes and moments of resistance—whispers that don’t quite resolve into a reflection but remain present. In The Memory of a Map, my movement becomes a kind of map, tracing paths in the lingering patterns of colonial control. With each step, there’s an imprint of memory and presence, a question of what’s held and what’s lost in the act of mapping. Shadows, sounds, and fluid forms like bronze push this question, asking if a map can be more than a fixed outline, instead becoming a layered memorial of where I’ve been and what I’ve felt.
2021 Learn More
An Ongoing Manifesto: The rot remains with us, the men are gone + AntiBOOTH
An ongoing manifesto: The Rot Remains With Us, The Men Are Gone + ANTIBOOTH (2022) explores the unshakable residue of colonialism and white supremacy—brick by symbolic brick. Borrowing from Derek Walcott’s line, I examine survival within systems built on ruin and exploitation, questioning what it means to live amid these enduring structures. Bricks, both metaphorical and material, form the oppressive architecture that cages us, clinging to the skin, infecting even the air. How do we break this foundation, dismantle the rot, and disrupt what has been laid in place for us? Through dust and destruction, there’s a rebellion, a slowing disassembly—a hope that ruin can pave the way for something else to emerge. With AntiBOOTH at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, No Small Acts of Disappearance brought this manifesto into a new space, where art confronts its own boundaries, dissolving into air and dust, but refusing to disappear.
2021-2023 Learn More