2020-2029

Gupta explores the nature of conflict as expression and modality, engaging with historical, geographical and socio-political narratives that yield powerfully discursive, personally resonant and at times playful calls to action, enriching post-modern queer theory through his expressionist politics. SOUTH SOUTH interviewed the artist to find out about each series on show.

LAGO/ALGO is a new living and cultural hub located in the heart of the Chapultepec forest, the green lung of Mexico city and the largest urban park worldwide. Learn more about it through our interview with its creative director.

Acutely erudite in music and equally conversant in literature, politics, philosophy and history, he was an artist who could lead the viewer to enter his work from different points of view.

For Volume 3 Issue 2 , Datta roots his interest through exploration of sculptural forms constructed in textiles, from the native wear of the Late Showa Period in Japan and old Indian sarees, both made between 1945 – 1989.

This exhibition at Circle Art Gallery demonstrates artist Mohamed Otaybi extensive knowledge of painting and his intimate understanding of the evolution of life in Sudan.

For STPI’s 2022 Annual Special Exhibition ‘Second Movement’ they present a spectacular showcase of 41 works by 21 artists from their past two decades of creative collaborations.

Curator Aisha Stoby identified Khimji as one of Oman’s pioneers, alongside Anwar Sonja, Hassan Meer, Budoor Al Riyami and Raiya Al Rawahi, highlighting the significance of her presence in the pavilion. SOUTH SOUTH interviewed the artist to find out more about her practice and the work on show at Venice.

Through an exploration Global South-based collectives contributing to documenta fifteen see the emphasis on people, community and exchange that is the central component of this year’s edition.

The exhibition focuses on the bodily potentials “of” and “in” the participating artists’ works as instruments to deconstruct the processes of artistic creation from a Eurocentric system and from the language of art.

Alongside selected new paintings, a multitude of sculptural works are presented, which Dávila combines to produce surprising ensembles of works while conscientiously engaging with the museum’s architectural givens.

The artist is one of the two Mexican artists selected by curator Cecilia Alemani for the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia joining a list of 213 artists on show this year.

The exhibition at John Hansard Gallery centres on a collection of five humble yet remarkable used envelopes addressed to Mahatma Gandhi.

Taking SOUTH SOUTH’s departure point of the Global South being a political term rather than a strictly geographical term, we take a look at a few of the artists from SOUTH SOUTH’s community of galleries that offer a perspective from or related to the Global South.

The show presents a wide selection of Kallat’s works and highlights his mastery as a multidisciplinary artist.

Curated by Maya Allison, this presentation shows a major new work by Emirati artist, and is accompanied by a monographic book publication, chronicling the artist’s work at the vanguard of the UAE’s art community over nearly four decades.

The show explores ideas of our shared future through personal narratives, lived experiences and sensorial encounters.

Taking place on the ground floor of Frieze’s space at No. 9 Cork Street, in the heart of London’s Mayfair, the exhibition will feature a curated selection of Dodiya’s celebrated painted mattresses and watercolours along with photo-collage works.

Shah’s current solo unpacks the threads woven between her thematic interests while representing a transformative period for the artist.

With this project the gallery highlights the importance of enabling conversations across disciplines and creating a space to highlight the pathways of connection, practice-building and narrative embodiment that exists in individual and collective practices across the Global South.

This edition embraced thoughts and existences regarding hybridity, diasporic identities, interconnectedness, embodied narratives and memory.

Guest curated by Zimbabwean curator Tandazani Dhlakama, Assistant Curator at Zeitz MOCAA, in collaboration with Pérez Collection curators Patricia M. Hanna and Anelys Alvarez, the exhibition includes over 100 works by African and African Diaspora artists.

Largely derived from investigations and photojournalistic field research in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, this exhibition seeks to investigate how one can engage with trauma as an outsider and also serves as a critique to the world’s indifference and a lack of global visibility to the atrocities in Rwanda at that time.