From February 16 to March 30, 2018, WHATIFTHEWORLD will present Patience Can Cook a Stone, a solo exhibition of recent works by Zimbabwean artist Dan Halter. The title of the exhibition Patience Can Cook a Stone finds its source in a Fulfulde proverb (Munyal deefan hayre), which advises that even the most seemingly insurmountable problems can be overcome with patience […]
The process of representation throws the artist into the dual delights of (1) succeeding in creating the illusion of form and (2) the material act of making. It is the latter of these two delights that South African painter, John Murray, foregrounds in his latest solo exhibition, Aftermath. The works on show are held in […]
WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Passage – a new body of work by Mohau Modisakeng, consisting of performance, photography and film. Passage, is a three-channel video projection and photographic series that meditates on slavery’s dismemberment of African identity and its enduring erasure of personal histories. In each of the artwork’s three projections, we are confronted […]
WHATIFTHEWORLD presents Vreesaanjaende Verligting (loosely translated as Dreadful Relief), a solo exhibition by South African artist Pierre Fouché. Running until August 19, 2017, the exhibition is a cycle of work that fuses two traditional Binche-style bobbin lace works in silk and cotton respectively as its starting point. A series of encaustic paintings follows in a response, and in […]
The month of April promises to deliver highly anticipated exhibitions at some of Africa’s leading art galleries. We present to you the must-see exhibitions: Mia Chaplin Under a Boiling River WHATIFTHEWORLD, Johannesburg April 6—April 29 27-year-old artist Mia Chaplin is seduced by the powers of impasto yet succumbs to the traditional genres of still life, […]
From March 16 to April 23, 2017, WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery will present Bend to Her Will by Sanell Aggenbach. Her work presents a haunting ambiguity characterised by her materially multifarious nature as she moves comfortably between the various disciplines of painting, printmaking and sculpture. She has proved to be a critical voice in contemporary South African […]
WHATIFTHEWORLD will present We Must Not Be Looking, a new series of photographic work by Nigerian artist Lakin Ogunbanwo from February 2 to March 18, 2017. In this body of work, Ogunbanwo proposes an irreverent reflection on the populist language of race and identity in South Africa. Whilst on an artist residency in Cape Town in 2015, […]