GROUP EXHIBITION

Far beyond the act of physical relocation, Still Moving investigates movement as metaphor for transformation, resistance, collective memory, traditional practices, and becoming. Through diverse media ranging from painting to sculpture, drawing and installation, the exhibition maps the visible and invisible trajectories of bodies, memories, and identities shaped by migration, cultural legacies, urban rhythms, intimacy, and superficiality.

“This exhibition challenges us to reconsider our notions and the impact of movement when positioning ourselves in the presence of these artworks,” says curator Jessica Nupen. “It reflects the multiplicity of motion and how we shift fluidly through memory and composed realities, choreographing and reconfiguring our own identities.”

The works featured in Still Moving are deeply tactile and emotionally resonant. Whether through layered gestures in painting, shimmering sculptural forms that reimagine femininity, or installations woven from domestic remnants that speak to healing and repair, the exhibition reveals how the interplay between material and form becomes the carrier of personal and collective history.

Boemo Diale and Nthabiseng Kekana engage the body as an archive, drawing on memory, ritual, and inherited knowledge to explore movement as both resistance and continuity. Frances Goodman examines the body as both archive and battleground, confronting the politics of desire and gender with unflinching vulnerability. Whereas Rosie Mudge’s iridescent, text-infused surfaces shimmer with contradictions, merging beauty and critique as she navigates femininity, consumer culture, and emotional labor. Through distinct yet resonant practices, William Kentridge and Sam Nhlengethwa explore themes of memory, displacement, and resistance in post-colonial Southern Africa. Kentridge’s monumental procession Triumphs and Laments and his layered print series Universal Archive draw on history’s erasures and contradictions, while Nhlengethwa’s jazz-inspired portraits celebrate cultural resilience, transforming music into a visual language of survival and protest. Misheck Masamvu’s gestural, emotionally charged paintings unravel the politics of identity and instability, offering a raw, rhythmic visual language that reflects Zimbabwe’s shifting sociopolitical terrain.

Still Moving is both a meditation and a provocation insisting that even in stillness, there is motion. Each artwork becomes a body where home and exile, past and present collapse and coalesce.