An evocative group exhibition offering a bold meditation on the politics and poetics of movement within the context of Southern Africa.
Still Moving, curated by acclaimed choreographer and interdisciplinary artistic director Jessica Nupen, features a compelling assembly of renowned and emerging artists including William Kentridge, Sam Nhlengethwa, Boemo Diale, Nthabiseng Kekana, Misheck Masamvu, Frances Goodman, and Rosie Mudge. The exhibition offers a bold meditation on the politics and poetics of movement within the context of Southern Africa.
Far beyond the act of physical relocation, Still Moving investigates movement as metaphor: for transformation, resistance, collective memory, survival, and becoming. Through diverse media—ranging from painting to sculpture, drawing and installation—the exhibition maps the visible and invisible trajectories of bodies, memories, and identities shaped by migration, cultural legacies, urban rhythms, intimacy, and socio-political flux.
“This exhibition challenges us to reconsider how what it means to move or to be still in a world marked by constant upheaval,” says curator Jessica Nupen. “It reflects the multiplicity of motion—how we shift through memory, reconfigure identity, or choreograph our own futures.”
The works featured in Still Moving are deeply tactile and emotionally resonant. Whether through layered gestures in painting, shimmering sculptural forms that reimagine femininity, or installations woven from domestic remnants that speak to healing and repair, the exhibition reveals how material and form become carriers of personal and collective history.
Artists like Frances Goodman explore the body as both archive and battleground, confronting the politics of desire and gender with unflinching vulnerability. Through distinct yet resonant practices, William Kentridge and Sam Nhlengethwa explore themes of memory, displacement, and resistance in post-colonial Southern Africa. Kentridge’s monumental procession Triumphs and Laments and his layered print series Universal Archive draw on history’s erasures and contradictions, while Nhlengethwa’s jazz-inspired portraits celebrate cultural resilience, transforming music into a visual language of survival and protest.
Still Moving is both a meditation and a provocation—insisting that even in stillness, there is motion. Each artwork becomes a site where home and exile, past and present, collapse and coalesce.