highlights
ART WEEK CAPE TOWN | launch
Somnyama Ngonyama by Zanele Muholi
The Maitland Institute
18h00
Unit 15, The Meat Factory
372 Voortrekker Road,
(parking entrance off Mowbray Street)
The Maitland Institute, a space in Cape Town dedicated to art and ideas, is launching with a show by Zanele Muholi.
Cape Town Art Fair | opening
18h00 - 21h00
CTICC, 1 Lower Long St
Tickets | www.capetownartfair.co.za
The Cape Town Art Fair showcases a diversity of work, bringing contemporary art from Africa to the world, and the world to Cape Town.
Woodstock Art Night | exhibitions and performances
17h00 - 20h00
Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock
Woodstock Art Night is an after-hours cultural programme that includes some of Cape Town’s top contemporary art galleries, with a supporting programme of performances and other activities in other spaces.
CBD galleries | open day
10h00 - 14h00
Various venues
Visit exhibitions at galleries in Cape Town's city centre, including the AVA Gallery, Smith Studio, WORLDART Gallery, Salon 91, Christopher Moller Art, 99 Loop, MOMO and Everard Read.
featured event
Somnyama Ngonyama by Zanele Muholi
Launch | Wednesday 15th | 18h00
The Maitland Institute
Unit 15, The Meat Factory, 372 Voortrekker Road,
(parking entrance off Mowbray Street)
The Maitland Institute, a space in Cape Town dedicated to art and ideas, is launching with a show by Zanele Muholi.
“With the series Somnyama Ngonyama, I have decided to turn the camera on myself. In contrast to my life-long project of documenting members of my black LGBTI community in South Africa and beyond, one in which I normally have the privilege of witnessing participants’ presentation of themselves according to their own self-image, with this new work I have created portraits in which I am both participant and image-maker.
Somnyama Ngonyama (meaning ‘Hail, the Dark Lioness’) is an unflinchingly personal approach I have taken as a visual activist to confronting the politics of race and pigment in the photographic archive. It is a statement of self-presentation through portraiture. The entire series also relates to the concept of MaID (‘My Identity’) or, read differently, ‘maid’, the quotidian and demeaning name given to all subservient black women in South Africa.”
- Zanele Muholi