Southern Guild

NOW SHOWING: AN ORDER OF BEING Manyaku Mashilo

23.11.2023 - 25.01.2024

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NOW SHOWING: BLACK EXODUS: SUMMER DEPARTURE Oluseye

23.11.2023 - 25.01.2024

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COMING UP: Design Miami 2023 Group Show

05.12.2023 - 10.12.2023

COMING UP: Untitled Art 2023 Group Show

05.12.2023 - 10.12.2023

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Nov 27

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“The question in these textures is not ‘How did we get here?’ but ‘How will we survive here?’. ‘Here’ as in now, tomorrow, after, freedom – how will we be? We have all known to look to tomorrow in the pit of night before dawn breaks the sky’s surface. Abanye baye ngale, abanye ba wele - but today these textures ask: ‘So far, dear traveller, how have you found your way? How does it feel to be here, how will we know when we get there?’” - Julie Nxadi

‘An Order of Being’ by @manyaku_mash features a series of figurative paintings that dreams into being an expansive space for healing and self-determined presence.

‘An Order of Being’ is on show until 25 January 2024.

Shown here:
Manyaku Mashilo
‘somewhere in-between’, 2023
Acrylic, ink, red ochre on canvas
200 x 140 cm

#manyakumashilo #southernguild #painting #painter #artexhibition #exhibition #figurativeart #figurativepainting #dreams #liminal #selfhood #art #artwork #portrait #spiritual #spiritualart #healing #healingart #afrofuturist #afrofuturism

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Nov 24

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Congratulations to @olu.seye on last night’s opening of his wide-ranging solo exhibition, ‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’.

Spanning sculpture, installation and photography created over the past five years, the exhibition weaves the artist’s personal narrative, trans-Atlantic journeys and artistic evolution into a broader exploration of historical and contemporary Black life.

‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’ is a journey to finding self and forging an artistic identity rooted in play, honesty, travel and research. Oluseye notes: “I am coming into self within this broader examination of Black ancestry, migration, spirituality, aesthetics and visual culture. What’s my journey within these larger, universal themes of Blackness? What is my contribution?”

#oluseye #southernguild #blackexodus #installation #sculpture #photography #exhibition #artexhibition #gallery #artgallery #africandiaspora #africandiasporaart #talismans #eminado

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Nov 24

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Congratulations to @manyaku_mash on the opening of her solo exhibition, ‘An Order of Being’.

The new body of figurative paintings navigate and construct an imaginative future realm. This abstracted plane – expansive in its capacity to heal, liberate and reinvent – is occupied by a collective of fluid, dreamlike figures.

‘An Order of Being’ resists singular compartmentalisation of the self and the cultural practices that have come to define and inform Mashilo’s unfolding sense of the world. Her subjects shapeshift between hybridised identities to welcome an alternative understanding of how a person comes into being. This future world does not repress or shame this complexity; it welcomes and holds expansive space for an evolving and indefinable multiplicity.

#manyakumashilo #southernguild #paintings #painter #artwork #exhibition #artexhibition #afrofuturism #afrofuturist #figurativepainting #dreams

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Nov 23

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The intricate line work of @manyaku_mash adorns the BMW 7 Series in the form of a custom-designed wrap the artist created for @bmwsouthafrica. Southern Guild commissioned Mashilo to translate her work into a multi-layered pattern for the vehicle, which is driven by gallery founders @mcgowantrevyn and @mcgowanjulian. The collaboration marks the artist’s solo exhibition, ‘An Order of Being’, opening this evening (running until 25 January 2024).

This short film takes us into Mashilo’s Cape Town studio, where she talks about her process and inspiration. This new series of figurative paintings navigates and constructs an imaginative future realm, expansive in its capacity to heal, liberate and reinvent.

Mashilo’s practice acts as a vehicle for sense-making; her canvases stand as liminal spaces for synthesising elements of her religious upbringing, ancestral heritage, both real and invented myth, folklore, science fiction, music and sourced archival photographic images. ‘An Order of Being’ is occupied by a collective of fluid, dreamlike figures, constituting a gentle confrontation with the multiplicity of the artist’s past, present and future facets of selfhood.

Cinematographer and editor: Bill Chen (New Perspective Pictures)
Producer: @erin_starr_
Original score: @keegansteenkamp
Sound mixing: @sidechainchad
Lighting: @leon_basler

#manyakumashilo #southernguild #bmwsouthafrica #linea #line #painting #drawing #bmw

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Nov 22

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One night inside the world of @rich_mnisi at CASA RICH. Hosted by Southern Guild, @bmwsouthafrica and @rich_mnisi in celebration of the designer’s upcoming solo exhibition in February 2024 and the local launch of the new BMW XM.

Thank you to @bmwsouthafrica for 6 years of unwavering support and the fleet of guest vehicles, @cavalliestate for the superlative wines, @gavinrajahevents for seamless organisation and the energy of our wonderful guests.

Photos by @nina_zimolong

#CASArich #richmnisi #southernguild #bmwsouthafrica #bmw #bmwxm #cavalliestate

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Nov 20

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Southern Guild presents ‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’, a solo exhibition of new works by Nigerian-Canadian artist @olu.seye opening on 23 November (until 25 January). Spanning sculpture, installation and photography created over the past five years, the exhibition weaves the artist’s personal narrative, trans-Atlantic journeys and artistic evolution into a broader exploration of historical and contemporary Black life.

Oluseye re-animates found objects and detritus collected from his travels – which he terms “diasporic debris” – to trace Blackness through its multifaceted migrations and manifestations. ‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’ is a journey to finding self and forging an artistic identity rooted in play, honesty, travel and research.

Oluseye’s chosen materials – hair, rubber, cotton, cowrie shells and mirrors – are often a medium through which to reimagine the diasporic debris. He says: “These are loaded materials that carry with them brutal histories of enslavement and colonial conquest, oppression and pillaging but are reclaimed anew as symbols of power, resilience and good omen. I like the tension of working with them, repositioning them to give new meaning and significance.”

‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’ runs concurrently with ‘An Order of Being’ by @manyaku_mash.

#southernguild #oluseye #artexhibition #exhibition #artwork #sculpture #cowrieshell #bronzesculpture #africandiaspora #africandiasporaart #blackdiasporaart #blackatlantic #talisman #blackhistory

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Nov 20

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Southern Guild is pleased to present ‘An Order of Being’, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by South African artist @manyaku_mash, opening this Thursday, 23 November 2023 (until 25 January 2024).

Mashilo’s new body of figurative paintings navigate and construct an imaginative future realm. This abstracted plane – expansive in its capacity to heal, liberate and reinvent – is occupied by a collective of fluid, dreamlike figures. Her subjects shapeshift between hybridised identities to welcome an alternative understanding of how a person comes into being.

‘An Order of Being’ runs concurrently with ‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’ by @olu.seye.

Shown here:
Manyaku Mashilo
‘You and Your Soul Are Never Not One’, 2023
Acrylic, ink, imbola (red clay) on canvas
250 x 150 cm

#southernguild #manyakumashilo #painter #painting #artist #artwork #figurativeart #figurativepainting #portraiture #dream #dreamlike #africanspirituality #heal #healer #fluid #fluidity #afrofuturism #gallery #exhibition #artexhibition #artgallery

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Nov 18

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‘Motaung // Seakamela’ opens at @pretoria_art_museum today, featuring the work of @lrato_lerato and @naveldnav.

Between 2014 and 2015, the two artists were part of the Education and Development Programme of the Pretoria Art Museum. During those years, they were instrumental in the museum reaching its strategic goals of making art accessible to previously disadvantaged communities as well as making its exhibitions accessible to visiting groups by means of guided tours. Although they had exhibited elsewhere before, the artists were part of the 2015 For Sale Project Group Exhibition before respectively embarking on full-time careers as professional artists.
Throughout the years, both as students and as professional artists, the two artists have maintained close ties with each other. Their two-man show will present an intertextual viewing of their work from divergent and convergent points.

The exhibition will close on Sunday, 14 January 2024.

#navelseakamela #leratomotaung #pretoriaartmuseum #southernguild

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