GROUP EXHIBITION

Working across photography, collage, and textile assemblage, the artists approach history as a contested and continually unfolding terrain. Nicola Brandt’s practice critically engages with the entangled legacies of German colonialism, National Socialism, and Apartheid, examining how power is inscribed within landscapes and the intersections of private and public memory. Through her photographs, she draws attention not only to what history reveals, but also to what remains absent or deliberately obscured.

Sahlah Davids turns to textiles, upholstery, and needlework to explore the oral histories of her Cape Muslim heritage and the lasting social realities of apartheid. Drawing upon the domestic labour and artisanal traditions passed through generations of women in her family, her material language transforms beads, pins, fabric, and upholstery foam into vessels of memory. These familiar materials speak simultaneously of hardship, resilience, faith, and home, revealing how personal histories are inseparable from broader political and cultural narratives.

Tshepiso Moropa similarly begins with fragments: archival photographs, oral histories, dreams, and folktales, reassembling them into intricate collages and immersive installations that imagine the archive as a living, evolving space. Rooted in African historical memory and storytelling traditions, her work dissolves the boundaries between past and present, constructing poetic narratives that foreground ancestral knowledge, collective memory, and the possibilities of reimagining history.

Rather than seeking recovery or resolution, the exhibition embraces fragmentation, layering, and material transformation as ways of understanding how memory endures – continually rewritten through the stories we inherit, the places we inhabit, and the futures we imagine.