stevenson #07 12-2020 .info ‘A manifesto against creative paralysis in a very confusing world’: Studio view of Zander Blom’s Garage-ism. The show, with accompanying publication, opens on 10 December in Cape Town and runs through the season Resumption song # Looking ahead to a the São Paulo Biennale evidence sing, follows the rhythm of a triennial year of experiments a willingness to work differently for its 34th edition, starting officially in adaptation with time. The first now takes in September 2021; Paulo Nazareth place over six months of 2021, and and Frida Orupabo are included. One of the first exhibitions we is set to include How to make a Orupabo makes inroads had to rethink during this ‘strange country, an exhibition curated by further north in the Americas, and uncertain’ moment was The Stevenson’s Lerato Bereng at FRAC launching the first in a two-part Mushroom at the End of the World, Poitou-Charentes in Angoulême; project celebrating Toronto’s Year inspired by Anna Tsing’s oblique a solo show by Barthélémy Toguo of Public Art in January 2021. treatise on adaptability and survival. at the Musée du quai Branly; and a Her Woman with a Book (2020) is Though the exhibition was placed on group exhibition on womanhood, exhibited as a mural in the city’s hold indefinitely, its ethos endures The Power of My Hands, featuring historic garment district to assert in forthcoming programming in our Portia Zvavahera, at the Musée d’art ‘the notion of Black women’s spaces and further afield. moderne de Paris. The São Paulo bodies as sites of knowledge and France’s Africa Season 2020 and Biennale, titled Though it’s dark, still I empowerment’. And Simphiwe stevenson 2 #07 stevenson 3 #07 .info 12-2020 .info 12-2020 Ndzube holds his first US museum solo, Oracles of the Pink Universe, at the Denver Art Museum in June. After postponements, Kemang Wa Lehulere’s first Scandinavian solo exhibition, Bring Back Lost Love, now takes place at Göteborgs Konsthall from 30 January; Beyond Belief by Deborah Poynton opens on 21 April at the Drents Museum in Assen; and Zanele Muholi’s retrospective at Tate Modern – already lauded by the critics (see p7) – will have an extended run till 6 June. The Paris, Berlin and Umeå iterations of this Call Me When You Get There: A view of Mame-Diarra Niang’s pigment prints encased in Perspex frames, installed at the Cape Town gallery show, at La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Gropius Bau and Bildmuseet respectively, ‘Roads that lead you to somewhere you don’t know’ consider the possibilities of concurrent showings instead of a linear tour. # Lockdown presented sc I felt something similar when I You can see the roads, and they lead you see at first, it’s something that to save, time to feel, to express and Though physical openings Mame-Diarra Niang with was walking through the works. You you to somewhere that you don’t you find because you decided to to do. I wasn’t attempting to make remain a point of speculation, an invitation to time- see how people care for their homes. know. I think it will be the next work look twice. anything when this work came to Serge Alain Nitegeka and Wim travel. She spoke to Flowers and trees demonstrate life, that will tell where they lead us, me. I was with my wife, pretending Botha begin 2021 with spatial Sinazo Chiya about her but with the faces blocked there’s but these are predictions of where sc It felt more honest to your vision that everything was well because we experiments at Stevenson encounters room for a different reading – there’s we are going now. It’s open roads, to have the work be seen together as have a beautiful house, we have a Johannesburg. Nitegeka explores a sense of something deeper, sinister but in a contemplative moment. a whole environment? yard, we did barbecues on our own. figuration and sound withBlack mdn What do you see when you see happening in the social fabric. Everybody is stuck and yet they are I have a hammock, books, Netflix, Encounters, opening on 6 February. the sequences? going somewhere. mdn Sahel Gris, the firsteverything that can help a person Botha presents new work in wood, mdn When I first got there I had photographic series, works with the forget. I have a lot of privilege. But marble and leather from 20 March. sc They’re like variations on a theme. the feeling that the people are sc You can still see the relationships same principle. I have an approach then I realised that things were kind The calendar in Cape Town gets It all feels the same, and different. not grounded. It was strange. between the characters, whether like a filmmaker. I am doing a kind of pressurised. off to an equally multidimensional It’s almost like an extension of It was perfect. They are on the they are in groups or pairs or alone. of travelling, you know. It’s like you start with solo exhibitions by one image. When you look at the land, but not – like spirits. I really They are interacting within the have to see the works with maybe sc There was something blocked? Kemang Wa Lehulere and Dada postures of the people, there’s a interrogated myself about all these distortion. two metres in front of you and then Khanyisa. The former, set to open sense of watching them process the little characters: Who are they? see the line of the horizon and then mdn Every day felt the same. My real on 28 January, will introduce new same event from different places. What is their purpose? What are mdn They look at us, it’s uncanny. you can see where I’m trying to lead memories of that time began when forms and symbols in the artist’s they talking to each other about? For me it’s not as if I was just using you. I think this work is the most I started my journey on Google repertoire. Khanyisa’s third solo mdn Exactly, like something My work didn’t have much of a technology. I can tell you when I beautiful work that I have done and Maps. I visited new and familiar exhibition, Not All Shadows are happened at the same moment for human presence, it was the first time turned, who I met. I was there and it’s not forced into existence by me, places, and each was different. Black, opening on 18 March, everybody. Like evanescence and I was so moved by bodies, a bit like it’s like time-travelling. It was a sort it was given. I knew I had arrived there because I comprises works made in the disappearing. We don’t know if Martina Bacigalupo’s Gulu Real Art of meditation. But also, to meet recognised it as how I felt. I felt cut, artist’s new home studio with a we are erased or we are just in the Studio project. the glitch, you have to also really sc You had to be the one to find it? stretched; I felt like something was particular emphasis on colour. making of something. It is an in- engage in the encounter. You need disappearing inside of me. It was As details reveal themselves and between that was so relevant for the sc So you have to listen to the story to take some time when you meet mdn Yes. I think all this time gave like the portrait of who I was, and improvisation takes the place of present. That’s why I like to say I in the body, not just the story in the people because when you are everybody the kick to do something. in all my works really I am taking a stringent planning, words from don’t know what it is, because over- the face? on the road you don’t see the glitch. To meet our shadows, and it was time picture of who I am. Tsing’s closing chapters remain defining it will just disturb all the You have to turn in a particular way, to meet the shadow to see and make mdn Mame-Diarra Niang’s Call Me When You Get an anchor: There is room here for ideas. It is the blank space that allows Yes, the body, the hands, the you have to find the right angle and some healing and in some parts to be There will remain on view at Stevenson imagining other worlds. you to think about the relationships. legs, the direction of the shoulders. then it shows up. It’s not something patient, to communicate, take time Cape Town through the summer season stevenson 4 #07 stevenson 5 #07 .info 12-2020 .info 12-2020 6 December in St Louis and Ferguson, Missouri 12 January Neo Matloga’s work features in TO 20 DEC Zander Blom’s Garage Party opens Don’t miss Calendar Collection as Poem in the Age at Signs and Symbols, New York these ongoing of Ephemerality — Works from 19 & 20 December City TO 20 FEB X Museum Collection at the X The Norval Foundation, Cape shows Dec-Feb 13 January Museum in Beijing TO 28 FEB Town, holds its first Art Book Fair, Dates are subject to with selected publications from Last week to visit And Then You See 8 December change; please check Stevenson, among others, on offer Yourself, a solo exhibition of early → Until March gallery and museum websites Last week to view Meleko Mokgosi’s in the foyer 10AM-6PM to recent work by Zanele Muholi Wim Botha’s Still Life with epic painting series Democratic at the Norval Foundation in Cape before visiting.