By the Movement of All Things

A group exhibition curated by Hamzeh Alfarahneh of South African curatorial firm Art(Advisory) and featuring works by Hamra Abbas (Pakistan), Diana Al-Hadid (Syria-USA), Timo Nasseri (Iran-Germany), and four South Africans – Igshaan Adams, Moshekwa Langa, James Webb, and Bronwyn Katz.

The exhibition continues Alfarahneh’s ongoing investigation into Global Majority abstract practices, focusing on the affinities and resonances between South African and Middle Eastern non-figurative approaches. The title, borrowed from Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, sets the tone of active participation, inviting the viewer to engage with the works not merely by projecting meaning but also by reflecting their own lived experiences.

The exhibition is organised through a framework that Alfarahneh terms ‘structures of knowledge’ – “a mode of thinking that interrogates what kinds of knowledge exist outside the dominant canon, and what role curators and institutions play in safeguarding, proposing, and presenting non-institutional know-how, thematics, and ancestral wisdoms,” as the gallery puts it. “Rather than offering neat oppositions, this framework asks how exhibition-making can surface practices of knowing that operate through gesture, lineage, and embodied memory.” Should be interesting.

To 8 January.

Above: Igshaan Adams, Dark comfort (i) (2024)