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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2277005825749735580370554616999/IMG_5309.jpeg surface artwork detail by Asemahle Ntonti and surpressing the urge to feel its typogrophy. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2277006706360404171117129661607/IMG_5261.jpeg traces and references https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2277006705511853943726490287271/IMG_5395.jpeg place in another place, memory and personal moments https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2277006706323510682969710558375/IMG_5248.jpeg the artist’s extension between production and Self at WaterDixon studio https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2277006706120596498158905490599/IMG_5245.jpeg studio space by WaterDixon https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2277006706194383474453743697063/IMG_5255.jpeg surface tension II https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2277006706157489986306324593831/IMG_5392.jpeg surface tension I https://workofmerit.org/thinking-with-soil-workshop-1 2025-05-12T19:25:15+00:00 always 0.5 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2276872640294416885555306200231/IMG_4403-1.jpg Exhibition view at Brazil’s largest museum devoted to African and Afro-descendant culture, it was started from the private collection of Bahian artist and curator Emanoel Araújo, director and mentor to the space. Housed in a pavilion in Ibirapuera Park, the collection has grown steadily since the museum’s opening in 2004 and today includes more than six thousand items, spanning three centuries of history, including ethnological pieces and documents, as well as paintings, engravings and photographs by both Brazilian and international artists. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2276872640368203861850144406695/IMG_4299-1.jpg As a contrast to the almost 60 year old architectural style of the Copan, you find something that looks like a futursitc move prop including a brilliant idea. A domestic resource sharing vending machine. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2276872640349757117776434855079/IMG_4455-1.jpg Dos Brasis: Arte e Pensamento Negro (Black Art, Black Thinking), Curated by Igor Simões, in partnership with Lorraine Mendes and Marcelo Campos, Dos Brasis—Arte e Pensamento Negro exhibits the works of circa 240 black artists—amongst men and women both cis and transgender, from all Brazilian states—and includes a range of languages such as painting, photography, sculpture, installations and video installations, produced between the end of the 18th century up until recent times. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2276872639925482004081115167911/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-26-at-10.11.50-1.jpeg The view from the notorious Edifício Copan (Copan Building), designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1966 stands as a landmark of downtown São Paulo. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2276872640128396188891920235687/IMG_4532-1.jpg Exhibition view of 22nd Biennial Sesc Videobrasil Memory is an Editing Station. With artistic direction by Solange Oliveira Farkas and curated by Raphael Fonseca, from Brazil, and Renée Akitelek Mboya, from Kenya, the 22nd edition is the result of a partnership between Sesc SP and the Associação Cultural Videobrasil. Drawing on a verse by Waly Salomão, the curatorial selection presents different visions and ways of approaching memory — and forgetting — whether individual or collective, linked to varied social, political and cultural contexts. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2276872640460437582218692164775/IMG_4216-1.jpg Casa do Povo “the people’s house” is a cultural center that revisits and reinvents notions of culture, community and memory. Inhabited by a dozen different groups, movements and collectives, some for decades, others arriving more recently, Casa do Povo expands the notion of culture. Its interdisciplinary, process-based programming and socially-engaged activities see art as a critical tool in an ongoing process of social transformation. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2276872640054609212597082029223/IMG_4157-1.jpg Historic exhibition from the MASP collection, display design by Lina Bo Bardi. First seen at JCAF in Johannesburg in which the institute had used the display in their exhibition. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2276872639980822236302243822759/IMG_4236-1.jpg The art institute Pivo is located on the ground floor of the Copan with another site in Bahia, it shows contemporary art and projects. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2276872640017715724449662925991/IMG_4259-1.jpg Meeting with artists Silvia Noronha who I met first in Berlin with artist Lis Haddad and cultural producer Andre Mimiza. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2276872640239076653334177545383/IMG_4551-1.jpg Meeting with Rita Mourao Barbos of Desapê, a project of an itinerant gallery, artwork and artists' books uncollection, research, art shows and fairs. Created by Rita M M Barbosa, it is currently existing in the Copan Building, a historical landmark in São Paulo, Brazil. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2276872640441990838144982613159/IMG_4521-1.jpg The exterior at SESC Pompeia, another space designed by Lina Bo Bardi. Showing a snake plant, also known as Sansevieria trifasciata or mother-in-law's tongue, is often associated with protection, resilience, and positive energy due to its hardy nature and air-purifying abilities. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2276872640478884326292401716391/IMG_4560-1.jpg Detail artwork by Lis Haddad. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2276872640091502700744501132455/IMG_4598-1.jpg Pilgrimage (2010), by artist Eder Santos. The video addresses the mineral extraction process. This exploratory activity is carried out in different regions of the country, especially in Minas Gerais, the artist's home state. The practice dates back to the colonial period and has marked the country's history until our time of globalization, when ore extraction became responsible for even greater sociopolitical and environmental fractures. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2276872640312863629629015751847/IMG_4191-1.jpg The view from underneath MASP, designed by Italian-born Brazilian architect, furniture designer, set designer, and journalist Lina Bo Bardi whose work combines a Modernist sensitivity with a profound commitment to the preservation of the vernacular and a design process guided by social responsibility. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2276872640073055956670791580839/IMG_4627-1.jpg Meeting with the artists from Vilanismo is a brotherhood formed by twelve black visual artists who work together to create space for another as well as present other artists in their space. The collective drew inspiration from their maternal influences of nurture and collective building. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2276872640386650605923853958311/IMG_4655-1.jpg Studio conversations with artist Ana Raylander and curator Andre Pitol about artistic practice and visual story telling. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2276872640202183165186758442151/IMG_4124-1.jpg Rosana Paulino Nascituras (nascencies) at Gallery Medes Wood. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2276872640257523397407887096999/IMG_4146-1.jpg Exhibition view inside MASP, presenting different accounts of indigenous histories from South America, North America, Oceania and Scandinavia, through art and visual culture, curated by artists and researchers who are indigenous or have an indigenous descent, bringing together works of multiple media, typologies, origins and periods, from the period before European colonization to the present. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2276872640183736421113048890535/IMG_4583-1.jpg Marta Minujín: Live, an exhibition by one of the most important Latin American artists of her generation articulates more than one hundred works by Marta Minujín, from 1963 until today. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2276872640515777814439820819623/IMG_4486-1.jpg Urban interverntions and layers of human history. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2276872639999268980375953374375/IMG_4617-1.jpg With the curator Ana Paula at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a visual arts museum focused on Brazilian art from the 19th century to the present day, in dialogue with various cultures from around the world. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2276872640146842932965629787303/IMG_4664-1.jpg In the studio with Carla Chaim. Both in her works on paper as well as in her photographs and actions recorded on video, she seeks to go beyond the bounds of the traditional conception of drawing. More than a support for the development of an idea, or an initial sketch of a work to be created, drawing in her work appears essentially as a vestige of a body’s action on a given support, a trace of its presence, or even the remnant of a gesture. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2276872640220629909260467993767/IMG_4110-1.jpg Exhibition view at Medes Wood Gallery. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2276872640109949444818210684071/IMG_4336-1.jpg Striking architecture, private space. https://workofmerit.org/regarding-time,-visual-contemplations-on-indexicals 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2277263285259671889801180380327/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.17.16.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2277263285241225145727470828711/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.17.25.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2277263285333458866096018586791/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.16.31.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2277263285222778401653761277095/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.17.35.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2277263285296565377948599483559/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.16.55.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2277263285278118633874889931943/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.17.06.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2277263285315012122022309035175/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.16.42.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2277263284890737008326989348007/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-08.17.44.png https://workofmerit.org/cosmos-exhibition 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2277326671426702392424866282663/Screenshot-2022-07-28-at-12.05.08.png Magolide Collective Magolide Moon Landing 2022 Print on paper, wheat paste, 2.6 x 1.8 m https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2283757990083826025521085185191/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.39.26.png Magolide Collective Magolide Moon Landing 2022 Print on paper, wheat paste, 2.6 x 1.8 m https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2283758398254932144492333792423/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.39.48.png Magolide Collective Ubambo Le Mbali! 2022 Print on paper, wheat paste, 118.8 x 84.1 cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2283761595887336857600849116327/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.42.40.png Bubblegum Club Soft Lapse, 2021 Single Channel Video, 3.41 min. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2283763122226281748550278479015/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.44.05.png blk banana & Francois Knoetze Future Festivals, 2021 360 video https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2283764164633342609803330747559/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.45.01.png Francois Knoetze & Denisha Anand The Plant Cyborg, 2022 video, 4.28 min. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2283767429467235983435742608551/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.47.58.png Aluta Null WE WUZ ELECTRONZ 'N SHIT 2022 mp4 video, 1.03 min. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2283768409837896524803572792487/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.48.50.png Aluta Null ALUTA'S ANGEL, 2022 AR print, 84.1 x 59.4 cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2283769607197607605216858635431/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.49.55.png Sukuma Mkhize Cosmic Noon, 2022 German etching, Hahnemuhle 60 x 60 cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2283771094558582268418005433511/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.51.16.png Sukuma Mkhize Radio Bubbles Ilford Cotton Rag, 61 x 54 cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2283772688966012791355680259239/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.52.42.png Mia Thom String Meditation I, 2022 Photographic print on German Etching paper 1232 × 993 x 55 mm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2283774034360845063288117820583/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.53.55.png Mia Thom String Meditation II, 2022 photographic print on Ilford, 600x 400 mm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2283775314915371916131481451687/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.55.05.png Tinyiko Makwakwa Untitled, 2020 Mineral Earth Pigment on Cotton with cotton thread, 146 × 210 cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2283777293088866148522668096679/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.56.52.png Oscar ORyan Not From Here, 2022 video, sound, 4.34 min. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2283778550289815004049739381927/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-23.58.00.png Gemma Shepherd & Rochelle Nembhard Genesis, 2021 video, sound (6.19 min.) https://workofmerit.org/courtyard-screening-project 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2277219740355226836950083992743/Air-Conditioner.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2277220049024595422332011183271/Run-Geogre.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2277225233943185940244231650471/PHOTO-2022-02-02-19-00-27-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2277225605183910423648957922471/PHOTO-2022-10-05-18-49-57-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2277225929256310310578360712359/PHOTO-2022-10-05-18-49-58.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2277226120475259378651572763815/IMG_5052.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2277226233627587526785962376359/A67215AE-CEB7-4000-A64C-AFB16A02923A.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2277226389262767276673449360551/2C429D35-9985-488E-9BA2-9B56545AF5DE.JPG https://workofmerit.org/swag-magazine-associate-editor 2025-05-12T19:02:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2278541391719118711170216524967/SMTHG-3-COVER-Malick-Sidibe.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2278541391571544758580540112039/SOMETHING-1-COVER-SIPA-PRESS.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2278541391700671967096506973351/SMTHG-2-COVER-Paul-Kodjo.jpg https://workofmerit.org/bare-conversations 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2278938693007505272770695822503/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-22.05.09.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2278940125766117477791569837223/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-22.06.28.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2278941384516592835510243458215/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-22.07.35.png https://workofmerit.org/a4-arts-studio-practice 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2278578033851931381907098205351/IMG_6579.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2278578034073292310791612824743/IMG_6583.jpeg Christian Nerf’s practice is often participatory and playful, investigating material, emotional, historical, and cultural properties. His residency followed the traces of his own archive of objects, quite literally spilling them into the A4 Arts space. Through installation, walkabouts, and activations, he rediscovered their stories and recontextualized their meaning. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2278578034054845566717903273127/IMG_6906.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2278585657374748212000913652903/IMG_5246.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2278585657134940539042689481895/IMG_5248.jpeg Bonolo Kavula, now an acclaimed multimedia artist, comes from a background in performance, illustration, and printmaking. She used her time at the residency to develop a series of social commentaries. We presented her work to the public through prints and performance. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2278586486795701998203482963111/IMG_5249.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2278593732141818573177780731047/IMG_4282.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2278593732123371829104071179431/IMG_4362.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2278593732160265317251490282663/IMG_3896.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2278593731865117412072137456807/IMG_3966.jpeg Gian Maria Tosatti engages with immersive installations by creating narrative-driven physical spaces. Although his residency was not focused on production, his research led to an exhibition in which he engaged with the institution’s collection, as well as the creation of an installation in an empty house we found—an approach he has consistently used throughout his practice. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2278599614697823214711533763751/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-28-55.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2278599614734716702858952866983/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-10-55.jpg The two photographers, Sabelo Mlangeni and Jabulani Dlamini, have been instrumental in shaping contemporary photography in South Africa. Their research delves into the long legacy of street and studio photography as a continuous archive of life and community, as well as studio portraiture as a celebration of identity and visual culture. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2278599614679376470637824212135/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-21-01.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2278599614753163446932662418599/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-19-44.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2278599614716269958785243315367/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-26-30.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2278599614513355773974438247591/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-28-59.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2278599614660929726564114660519/PHOTO-2018-12-12-11-16-59.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2278605294339643045440219020455/IMG_7292.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2278605294136728860629413952679/IMG_7290.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2278605294302749557292799917223/IMG_7453.jpeg The performance artist Kieron Jina, who is based between South Africa and Germany, continues to investigate the psychology of public spaces, representation, and the gaze. He explores how the body is performed and which reactions it provokes. During his residency, we opened his studio practice to the public, creating encounters where the boundaries between stage and spectator, performer and protagonist, remained deliberately undefined. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2278605294321196301366509468839/IMG_7455.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2278610264316771616488744058023/IMG_5380.jpeg Astronomer and artist Sukuma Mkhize explored ways to make the invisible natural world visible. By inviting other artists and thinkers to public studio talks, we opened the space to questions and ideas, which were further rendered through participation and a publication. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2278610264298324872415034506407/IMG_5388-2.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2278610669185910546265982925991/IMG_0029.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2278618580238127253270579412135/bbc0829-copy.jpg The collective Bubblegum Club became our first remote residents due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. We created a sounding board and interventions that could be managed digitally while still having physical effects. The collective explored the visual cues of Johannesburg’s urban landscape and the movement of the body in response to these stimuli. Additionally, we engaged in discussions about the collective’s identity as individual artists and how to structure a legal entity around it. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2278618580422594694007674928295/bbc0798-copy.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2284513905152803585070078917799/Screenshot-2022-05-17-at-13.16.31.png Measures of Closeness: a Lexicon of Gestures. How do we keep in touch in a contactless space in an age of hyper-communication? Can we survive but without touch, without skin? And what are the new measures of closeness? A long-distance performative session that emerged from ongoing research about gesture, space, connectivity, and technology. In the 1.5-hour Zoom meeting, while each one of us is in our own room, we will engage collectively in a series of movement exercises, choreographic figures, conversations, and chat rooms to provoke contemplation as to how we experience our bodies in relation to contact and confinement. https://workofmerit.org/a4-arts-circle-series 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2278914216447068981261976239271/IMG_1007.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2278914216576196189777943100583/IMG_1062.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2278914216594642933851652652199/IMG_1067.jpeg Andile Phewa is a photographer based in Cape Town. The questions here were how to identify intention and frames within visual storytelling. What is the relationship between artist, camera and the subject matter? How can we be precise with a medium that is ubiquitous and complex in terms of meaning-making and truth? https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2278915854517942726670159740071/IMG_2712.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2278915854591729702964997946535/IMG_8198.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2278915854573282958891288394919/IMG_2666.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2278915854610176447038707498151/IMG_8202.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2278915854296581797785645120679/EB506C73-D8F7-44ED-A3BE-D7DFA8F9221E.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2278915854536389470743869291687/IMG_2758.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2278915854554836214817578843303/IMG_2903.jpeg Katharien de Villiers is a mixed media artist based in Cape Town. Her practice is formed through collage and research. Writing, annotating and referencing becomes an integral part of her understanding of art making. Often unseen in the “finished” works, we created intentional space for these traces to be discovered and read in conjunction with the works. https://workofmerit.org/a4-arts-exhibitions 2025-04-01T08:26:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2278878744169871977037438942375/IMG_0548.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2278878744206765465184858045607/IMG_1200.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2278878743930064304079214771367/IMG_1347.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2278878744188318721111148493991/IMG_0588.jpeg For Igshaan Adams' Open Studio, we transformed the gallery into a studio and production space, allowing us to engage directly with the creative process. The images, like the engagement itself, unfolded as processes in time and space. We carved out meeting points for practitioners and audiences to engage with the developments, fostering a deeper understanding of both the intricate making of the works and their meaning. Igshaan’s generosity provided us with many additional opportunities for engagement. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2278886777062833290893623852199/IMG_1806.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2278886777007493058672495197351/IMG_1814.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2278886777081280034967333403815/IMG_1739.jpeg Sean O'Toole is a writer, editor, and occasional curator based in Cape Town. His exploration of what a photobook is began with mapping his own collection—examining the books as objects and as signifiers of past societies, while connecting them to contemporary ideas of design, language, and imagery. From playful aesthetics to the power of the book—banned, as in the case of House of Bondage—his research engaged with the reawakening of stories and lives. <a href="https://www.a4arts.org/projects/recYK1nqG45bPaEm8-photo-book-photo-book-photobook-wayfinder" style="--font-scale: 1.1;"></a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2278886777044386546819914300583/IMG_1848.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2278886777025939802746204748967/IMG_1808.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2278886776859919106082818784423/IMG_1705.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2278887643875337314505454288039/IMG_4742-1.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2278887643653976385620939668647/IMG_1873.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2278887643838443826358035184807/IMG_1872.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2278887643856890570431744736423/IMG_4854.jpg The collaboration with South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa began in the studio at A4, exploring different modes of photography—its materiality, its narrative potential, and, most importantly, the limitations of language. It was about the beauty of not understanding, yet still understanding—a negotiation between deeply personal moments and a more distanced photographic gaze. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2278891131545899098549249670311/IMG_7864.jpeg The U.S. American artist Kevin Beasley produced his exhibition entirely in Cape Town, transforming the gallery into a studio, production space, and site of reflection—ultimately shaping it into an exhibition. Together with his assistant, Shani Strand, we created connection points between the artist’s practice and the urban realities surrounding the institution. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2278891131564345842622959221927/IMG_7865.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2278891131582792586696668773543/IMG_0276.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2278891131527452354475540118695/IMG_7861.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2278891131509005610401830567079/IMG_7868.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2278891131287644681517315947687/IMG_7279.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2278892952257985917755703721127/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-21.23.48.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2278893542313988603503131262119/Screenshot-2022-05-16-at-21.23.17.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2278893542129521162766035745959/IMG_7160.jpeg The installation for the Risk exhibition focused on artworks rather than artistic production in situ, making the engagement with these works an intriguing conversation between the pieces and their representation in space. It explored their requirements, connections, and juxtapositions, creating dynamic statements in relation to the other works in the show. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2278895199661709905937796201639/be36bcbe-4326-4916-938a-7e31553947f8.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2278895199883070834822310821031/IMG_6358.jpeg Building on South African artist Zanele Muholi’s long-standing self-portrait practice, young artists were invited to respond to their works, reinterpreting the original photographs through their respective material choices. Muholi has been a pivotal voice in shaping conversations around the LGBTQI community for years, making this an especially significant moment. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2278895199864624090748601269415/DED28CFF-578B-4702-81DB-39EB6B2D7C0B.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2278896524027253933841344920743/F0910722-95ED-4869-ACAD-BF52FC541A91.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2278896523861233237177958956199/89645487-8DD4-48C9-BC15-65FC274DA32D.jpeg The Romanina artist Dan Perjovschi is known for his witty, sharp, and poignant commentaries on contemporary events. During his visit to Cape Town, we facilitated access points to the city and its history, which he then translated into a visual report—drawn directly onto the gallery walls. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2278896524045700677915054472359/B7E8B31A-6B50-4DEF-9A64-36BFB084EE6B.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2278898416700089384588759825575/IMG_5090-1.jpeg The South African writer, curator, and researcher of visual and audio culture, Bhavisha Panchia, created a participatory exhibition using sound, video, and vinyl design as spaces for inquiry. Blending old and new technologies, she incorporated her archive of sounds, music production, books, and mappings to explore these themes. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2278898416903003569399564893351/364D533A-1A3D-415D-9DBB-1E96BCC9BF48-1.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2278899566596327963347369360551/IMG_6359.jpg In Your Place asks after the multiple meanings of ‘home/homeward’. The parameters of ‘home’ are explored as a physical as well as psychological construct, in memory, from history and idea, and as a place of personal sanctuary. From global immigrants and refugees, to local communities and individuals seeking safety, pivotal questions concerning the identity of ‘home’ emerge from the query. The ICP-MFA graduates are a group of twelve visual artists from South Africa, India, Taiwan, Japan, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the US. The MFA programme has seen the artists working alongside one another over two years in New York, sharing curious and communal questions about home. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2278899566411860522610273844391/IMG_6360-2.jpg https://workofmerit.org/writings 2025-06-09T16:52:39+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header-back 2025-04-01T08:26:30+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/the-human-condition,-dates-and-other-allusions 2025-06-16T08:43:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2394353806734067195332754439335/The-Feast-Day_Mostafa-saifi-rahmouni_photo-Rebekka-Loffler.jpg The Feast Day, 2017 Digital print on paper, painted aluminium sheet, ropes ©RebekkaLöffler https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2394353806531153010521949371559/Mostafa-Saifi-Rahmouni_Looking-for-truth-1.jpg Looking For Truth, 2016 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artist-in-residence Chuan-Lun Wu. 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Courtesy Delfina Foundation https://workofmerit.org/header-—-mobile 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/soil-conversations-texts 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header-back-publication 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/merit-art-collective 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header-3 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/left-nav-1 2025-11-26T07:35:02+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2275816296349473063462600735911/multiple-choice.jpg https://workofmerit.org/index-merit-art-collective 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2275465378716530313802406460583/HelenaUambembe-PR-484.jpg https://workofmerit.org/mobile-nav-1 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/projects-merit-art-collective 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header-back-2 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/rerouting 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2275943463001135388325347884199/Screenshot-2025-03-05-at-11.11.54.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2275943463038028876472766987431/Screenshot-2025-03-05-at-11.17.18.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2275943463019582132399057435815/Screenshot-2025-03-05-at-11.17.56.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2275943462705987483145995058343/Screenshot-2025-03-05-at-11.18.33-1.png https://workofmerit.org/kitchen-talks 2025-06-09T16:26:02+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2378510598579796819832899140775/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-10.28.35.png Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), the Mexican painter and a fundamental artist who’s engagement with the female body, the inner world and outer connections has been a visual force for this project. https://workofmerit.org/multiple-choice-1 2025-06-15T18:30:21+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2275816296349473063462600735911/multiple-choice.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2378448449488317388319163710631/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-09.32.26.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2378449258378045020483002072231/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-09.33.10.png Nadia Asparouhova: “User named qntm logged one of these paranormal entities that he called an anti meme, an entity you can engage with in the moment, you can talk to it, you can remember all the details about it and then you step away and suddenly you can’t seem to retain any information about having interacted with it. (…) And qntm eventually built that out into a bigger idea and published this book called “There Is No Antimemetics Division, 2021.” https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2378457065888687241755885337767/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-09.40.12.png Janna Levin US American theoretical cosmologist and professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2378459526389198769430718086311/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-09.42.26.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2384940636165884766021886966951/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-11.18.06.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2384943405335764879078646906023/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-31-at-07.16.43.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2384947212928209133467195964583/Screenshot-2025-06-02-at-11.24.04.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2404200286450600626551760125095/IMG_0873.PNG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2404202420148594144388176444583/IMG_8F36D27FC8C0-1.jpeg Notes from David Wright Falade Reads Madeleine Thien - Lu, Reshaping. The New Yorker: Fiction podcast. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2404210226773792650123001232551/IMG_0961.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2406269398740661079233380777127/IMG_1031.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2406269399072702472560152706215/IMG_1030.jpg https://workofmerit.org/are-we-our-work 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2275827698743153625179193375911/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-21.09.42.png https://workofmerit.org/crossroads-residency-1 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2275825405905098983450475265191/Screenshot-2025-02-09-at-14.02.53.png https://workofmerit.org/nexus-of-imaginaries 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2275946153421865050716031974567/Untitled-design-2.jpg https://workofmerit.org/breaking-bread 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2275829780218414670343869070503/DSC03936.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2275936064657723466004029013159/DSC04067.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2275936064583936489709190806695/DSC04079.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2275936064620829977856609909927/DSC04407.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2275936064694616954151448116391/DSC04307.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2275936064713063698225157668007/DSC04127.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2275936064639276721930319461543/DSC04152.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2275936064676170210077738564775/DSC04363.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2275936064104321143792742464679/DSC04392.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2275936064602383233782900358311/DSC04039.jpg https://workofmerit.org/research-process 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header-copy 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/research-page 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J862420616531746418585851734620/horizontal.svg https://workofmerit.org/overlay-art-index-1 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/overlay-art-index 2025-07-08T09:50:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I838107784581252886147895208540/horizontal.svg <div style="text-align: right">Lungiswa Gqunta (SA, 1990) Instigation in Waiting I 2023 Digital print on fabric and cotton thread, 48 x 120 cm // 181 x 129 cm // 148 x 155 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2281671153627103974564694883495/_FOX0357.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Silvia Noronha (BR, 1984) From the series: Shifting Geologies (detail) 2020 - ongoing </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2281672353587805969371027504295/_FOX0309.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Gemma Shepherd (SA, 1993) & Rochelle Nembhard (UK/SA, 1989) Genesis 2021 video, sound, shot on camcorder, iPhone, drone, 6:19 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2281672353347998296412803333287/IMG_0175-copy-2.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Mia Thom (SA, 1994) A Decomposing Lullaby 2023 image of the recording </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2281672353606252713444737055911/_FOX0294.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Gemma Shepherd (SA, 1993) & Rochelle Nembhard (UK/SA, 1989) The Soil Remembers I, II, III 2021 Photography on Vliestapete, 150,3 x 100 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2281672353569359225297317952679/_FOX0351.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Theresa Schubert (GER, 1983) milieu 2023 Photographic print, 80 x 80 cm // 80 x 120 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2281723747600301129710046051495/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-16.01.26.png <div style="text-align: right">Natalie Paneng (SA, 1996) Venus Alchemises Below 2023 Video Art, 4:44 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2281724627620673910097915444391/amealwithmyl.png <div style="text-align: right">MADEYOULOOK (SA) still from Menagano (excerpt) 2023 Video, sound , 05:18 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2281862598235192301465691258023/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.06.55.png <div style="text-align: right">Lungiswa Gqunta (SA, 1990) Instigation in Waiting I 2023 Digital print on fabric and cotton thread, 48 x 120 cm // 181 x 129 cm // 148 x 155 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2281863321605814407912048327847/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.07.34.png <div style="text-align: right">Lungiswa Gqunta (SA, 1990) Instigation in Waiting II 2023 Digital print on fabric and cotton thread, 48 x 120 cm // 181 x 129 cm // 148 x 155 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2281863795871604542984620375207/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.08.01.png <div style="text-align: right">Lungiswa Gqunta (SA, 1990) Instigation in Waiting III 2023 Digital print on fabric and cotton thread, 48 x 120 cm // 181 x 129 cm // 148 x 155 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2281865401513102206811412135079/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.09.28.png <div style="text-align: right">MADEYOULOOK (SA) Menagano (excerpt) 2023 Video, sound , 05:18 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2281866527557700698263571430567/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.10.29.png <div style="text-align: right">IO Makandal (SA, 1987) This Too Shall Pass: iteration #4 2023 Natural fibre carpet, mycelium, soil residue, effective microorganisms, acrylic, steel bolts and cable, 90 x 125 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2281866976145623082732447628455/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.10.53.png <div style="text-align: right">IO Makandal (SA, 1987) This Too Shall Pass: iteration #3 2023 Natural fibre carpet, coconut husk, soil, effective micro-organisms, seeds, LED grow lights, 250 x 345 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2281867405419804422027423284391/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.11.16.png <div style="text-align: right">IO Makandal (SA, 1987) Threshold Dissolve #1, #2, #3 2023 Cotton, soil, stone powder, ground rye, water vapour, effective micro-organisms, wood frames: 35.5 x 45.5 cm // 83.5 x 83.5 cm // 91.5 x 91.5 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2281867888872073105807352036519/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.11.43.png <div style="text-align: right">IO Makandal (SA, 1987) Untitled (Clay impressions series: JAG #1) 2023 unfired earthenware clay, generated soil</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2281868607704796170121159408807/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.12.22.png <div style="text-align: right">Silvia Noronha (BR, 1984) From the series: Shifting Geologies 2020 - ongoing Photographic prints, soil samples, mixed waste & other materials after simulation of rock formation process, sizes variable</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2281869810063574894509733739687/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.13.27.png <div style="text-align: right">Silvia Noronha (BR, 1984) From the series: Shifting Geologies (detail) 2020 - ongoing </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2281870630630091525331718274215/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.14.11.png <div style="text-align: right">Nnenna Onuoha (GH/NG) Rows II 2023 Hair extensions; 500 x 340 cm, audio; 27 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2281873287846681855045209455783/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.16.33.png <div style="text-align: right">Nnenna Onuoha (GH/NG) Rows I 2023 Hair extensions, nails; 200 x 150 cm, audio; 12 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2281875055432145741968154852519/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.18.11.png <div style="text-align: right">Theresa Schubert (GER, 1983) milieu 5 2023 Performance with human feet, voice, text, and urban ground. Living sculpture with bacteria, human microflora, molds, yeast, peptone, agar-agar, glass petri-dish, 80 x 80cm.</div><div style="text-align: right">& milieu 2018 video work</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2281877578725374096550301301927/FINE_IMG.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Mia Thom (SA, 1994) A Decomposing Lullaby 2023 Violin and voice, 13:30 minutes</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2281905634433776033628482731175/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.45.48.png <div style="text-align: right">Natalie Paneng (SA, 1996) Venus Finds Balance 2023 Digital textile print, 200 x 150 cm</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2281907431404903229970743852199/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.47.25.png <div style="text-align: right">Natalie Paneng (SA, 1996)</div><div style="text-align: right">Venus Finds Balance Digital textile print 2023 150cm x 200 cm</div> https://workofmerit.org/overlay-performer-index-1 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/overlay-performer-index 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I838107784581252886147895208540/horizontal.svg <div style="text-align: right">Helena Uambembe How to Serve a Mud Cake performance in Berlin, 2023</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2281920658052445473046024453287/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-18.59.22.png <div style="text-align: right">Helena Uambembe How to Serve a Mud Cake performance in Berlin, 2023</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2281921829383800665455132966055/FINE_IMG-2.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2281923559024311992757530688679/FINE_IMG-2-2.JPG <div style="text-align: right">Ela Spalding Forces in Soil with sound and song and reading in Berlin, 2023</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2281923646904600759909834587303/FINE_IMG-3.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2281926019266569103400429714599/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-19.04.12.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2281927938336695323626212981927/a6d0c2ae-1955-4761-9daf-10dc2555e160.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Billy Langa The Forgotten performance in Joburg, 2023</div> https://workofmerit.org/overlay-talks 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I838107784581252886147895208540/horizontal.svg 'Sifting Through Soil' - at JAG, Johannesburg, 2023. South African curator and writer Lindiwe (Lindi) Mngxitama, musician Sibusile Xaba and Berlin-based curator, writer and researcher Kathy-Ann Tan invite you to join them in a conversation, sonic engagement and discursive journey through considerations of soil and its various manifestations as memory vessel and archive, medium and site/sight of resistance and repair but also violent encounters, and the relationship(s) between the body and soil. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2282127918087245859273356115111/8Z6A3523-copy.jpg Sibusile Xaba https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2282128425981450440718440758439/8Z6A3541-copy.jpg 'Sifting Through Soil' - at JAG, Johannesburg, 2023. South African curator and writer Lindiwe (Lindi) Mngxitama, musician Sibusile Xaba and Berlin-based curator, writer and researcher Kathy-Ann Tan invite you to join them in a conversation, sonic engagement and discursive journey through considerations of soil and its various manifestations as memory vessel and archive, medium and site/sight of resistance and repair but also violent encounters, and the relationship(s) between the body and soil. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2282140525791184197172051344551/8E35DE05-51BC-41EA-8E4C-16AB0EC6D5F0_1_105_c.jpeg A conversations with Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung which takes a closer look at Soil as a planetary boundary, an inscribed body, holding concepts of identity, memory, land, and speculative futures. As we look at the artworks presented at Soil Conversations we also take into account the digital and textual engagements of the project which is based on the process, traces, and particles from a metaphysical idea to a spatial manifestation. This will also be addressed by the talk through the dynamics of institutional and independent curatorial work and the question between transparency and discovery. https://workofmerit.org/press 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header-back-5 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/press-index-1 2025-06-08T07:18:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2283605481129134541812942011559/IMG_8898.jpeg https://workofmerit.org/portfolio 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/portfolio-1 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J862420616531746418585851734620/horizontal.svg Interview with artist Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2350627936888852666183742946471/Screenshot-2025-05-11-at-22.36.32.png Something we Africans got is a Paris based journal founded by Anna-Alix Koffi to promote arts and critical thought from Africa within an international perspective. The journal focuses on currents of thought, photography, cinema, contemporary art, fashion and literature among other forms of art. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2350629329673370463476018609319/Screenshot-2025-05-11-at-22.37.47.png Commissioned articel for SWAG, 2023 on textile artists. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2350633032451414891046895385767/Screenshot-2025-05-11-at-22.41.08.png In conversation with Kader Attia and Marie Hélène Pereira about Berlin Biennale 2022 for SWAG magazine. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2351344126783787027771074313383/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.23.36.png Studio Conversation with artist Samara Huggins https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2351344642093582726847398706343/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.24.05.png Interview with artist Jonathan Freemantle https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2351345106084536412863750503591/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.24.30.png In conversation with curator Salma Tuqan https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2351345822666756700184992578727/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.22.59.png Interview with artist Helena Uambembe https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2351348972282286589427545046183/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.27.59.png Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives, 2023 edited by Sindi-Leigh McBride & Julia Rensing (Basel University & UCT University) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2351353389484282247695646358695/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.31.59.png Exhibition Reviews: Käthe Kruse “Jetzt ist alles gut” & Mariechen Danz “edge out” at Berlinische Galerie https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2351354994424803636721475157159/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-09.33.26.png Publication for Soil Conversations exhibition in Berlin & Johannesburg, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2352106744016055167842908929191/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-20.50.17.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2352106743831587727105813413031/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-20.49.24.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2352106779120209140112185654439/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-20.48.53.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2352125606309932625849594182823/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-21.09.41.png Interview with artist Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2352143385890613421547856886951/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-21.24.59.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2363174648567925483838637898919/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-19.32.30.png Performance review Theatertreffen Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2363178122717023861853331946663/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-19.35.39.png On the current exhibition at DAAD Gallery, Berlin https://workofmerit.org/header-back-copy 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/header 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://workofmerit.org/clock 2025-06-08T07:18:38+00:00 always 0.5