2020-2029 Archives - South South

Tokyo Art Week 2022

Art Week Tokyo inaugurated an expanded edition in November 2022 in collaboration with Art Basel.

Ryohei Usui shows at MUJIN-TO Production

The subjects of this exhibition, scenes that Usui sees on the streets that somehow catch his fancy, are sometimes beautifully presented, and at other times with an air of subtle humour.

Campana Brothers show at Luciana Brito Galeria for the first time

Dissolving the barriers between the artistic expressions, the partnership affirms the gallery’s aim to increasingly embrace multidisciplinarity in its activity.

Shezad Dawood’s public installation ‘HMS Alice Liddell’

Shezad Dawood's public installation 'HMS Alice Liddell' A site-specific physical and AR spaceship that explores time travel, steampunk, architectural and science fiction references. The installation HMS Alice Liddell (2022) in London's St Pancras Station is named after the women’s rights campaigner who is thought to have inspired the character Alice from Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland; the original manuscript for which sits in the nearby British Library. Dawood’s sculpture imagines a new travel vessel,...

Rirkrit Tiravanija: Mezcal vs. Pulque at kurimanzutto

With the help and collaboration of Cooperativa 1050º, a cooperative of potters from Oaxaca, Puebla and Chiapas, and led by Kythzia Barrera, Tiravanija worked on special designs for vases, cups and other vessels that were shown in the exhibition.

Roberto Gil de Montes has his first solo in Mexico

Evoking high summer in Nayarit, this series of oil paintings explore the hidden images and forgotten or imagined stories of life in the tropics in rainy season.

Shezad Dawood | ‘Integrations’ series

This body of work consists of paintings on jute, each an abstract portrait of a particular project for the built environment but titled as a portrait of the architect(s) who designed them.

Exploring the cinematic work of Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca

Working together for a decade now, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca have been producing films and video-installations in dialogue with other artists connected to sound and stage. Learn more about their practice and recent exhibitions.

Gozo Yoshimasu’s latest project 吉増剛造 : Voix shows at Take Ninagawa

This project explores how the distinctions between sound and meaning blur in spoken language.

SCENORAMA

The artists included in this version of SCENORAMA are interested in creating new ways of thinking about the accessibility of individual and collective experiences.

In Situ: Encounters of Place

Through paintings and mixed media works, the artists reflect on the concept of place and origin in rapidly changing social, political, and economic realities.

Silverlens opens a gallery space in New York

This expansion was necessitated by the growth of the gallery’s programme and the drive to bring a broader representation of Southeast Asian, Asian Pacific, and Diasporic artists into the wider framework of the contemporary art dialogue.

The 12th edition of the Experimenter Curator’s Hub

Experimenter Curators’ Hub is a platform for developing and sustaining discourse on curatorial practice and exhibition-making through critical discussion and debate. This year marks its return to in-person conversation.

STPI shows Charles Lim Yi Yong in their final installment of PRINT SCREEN

For the third edition of its PRINT SCREEN programme, STPI Gallery presents a line-up of works by Charles Lim Yi Yong at its pop-up space, ArtSpace @ HeluTrans.

Hearts on Fire — Reflections on Parsi photography: past, present and future

This exhibition presented works by thirteen artists on the nature of Parsi identity, exploring the diverse ways in which the Parsi community has been visually represented and placing specific emphasis on contemporary images amidst shifting narratives of memory and belonging.

touch | A solo exhibition by Yoko Asakai

This show aimed to create a bridge between life before and after the pandemic.

Remember the Days | An eccentric retrospective of Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group’s experimental practice

This exhibition mimicked their actual studio; at the border between fictitious and real.

On the Brink | A solo exhibition by Martand Khosla

As both an artist and a practicing architect, Khosla is deeply involved with the built environment and he sees his artistic practice as an exploration of the continual regeneration of our cities. This is Khosla’s third exhibition with Nature Morte.

Landscapes of the Soul

Spanning over two decades and following a loose chronological order from 1993 to the present, the exhibition presented over seventy works characterising the artist’s engagement with abstract, symbolic, and thematic themes, and more importantly, his heartbeat for Nigeria.

Reynier Leyva Novo shows at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino

The exhibition features an installation of five hundred plaster casts of the empty interiors of vessels and a coordinating wall installation comprised of fifty embossed prints made from metal casts of the plaster sculptures.

Chevron Hassett: Hello Mr Kāwana

‘Hello Mr Kāwana’ was part of an ongoing project that engages with colonial narratives as a means to understand the histories that have shaped identity and landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Oscar Muñoz shows at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino

Experience the show through installation views and a text by Blanton Museum of Art curator Vanessa K. Davidson.

STPI presents PRINT SCREEN

Through their residency programme, STPI’s Creative Workshop collaborates extensively with international artists to create works in the mediums of print and paper. PRINT SCREEN is a fresh take on works created by their artists-in-residence

Galerie Lelong: Dialogues | Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum with Tao Leigh Goffe

Galerie Lelong & Co. held a conversation on the occasion of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s first solo exhibition in New York, ‘I have withheld much more than I have written’.

Elsa Gramcko: The Invisible Plot of Things

A comprehensive survey of Gramcko’s artistic practice from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s

Joydeb Roaja’s solo exhibition at Jhaveri Contemporary

View installation images of Joydeb Roaja’s solo and access the exhibition essay written by Diana Campbell

I have withheld much more than I have written

This exhibition features new works including a large installation and a suite of paintings.

New movements for Global South galleries

We take a look at three influential galleries that have opened distinctive spaces at home and across continents to contextualise the artists that they represent in different ways, expanding their audiences.

Sunil Gupta’s latest solo exhibition titled ‘Cruising’

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.

OMR’s recently formed cultural space LAGO/ALGO appoints Jérôme Sans as creative director

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.

Ground Control: a solo by the late Kanishka Raja

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.

Experimenter present Kallol Datta’s second solo at the gallery titled Volume 3 Issue 2

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.

Artist Mohamed Otaybi’s solo: The Lost Paradise

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.

STPI’s 2022 Annual Special Exhibition ‘Second Movement’

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.

Radhika Khimji at Venice

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.

documenta fifteen

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.

BAJO EL SOL at Travesía Cuatro

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.

Jose Dávila at Museum Haus Konstruktiv

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.

Roberto Gil de Montes in Venice

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.

Tangled Hierarchy in Southampton

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

Global South focus in Venice: The Milk of Dreams

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.

Jitish Kallat: Order of Magnitude

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

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim represents UAE in Venice

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.

Conversations on Tomorrow

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

Revel in the emotional theatre of an inner world with Anju Dodiya’s first-ever London solo

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.

Unpacking Seher Shah’s latest solo: Notes from a City Unknown

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

Travesía Cuatro gives voice to the Global South on its own terms with video series Bajo el Sol

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.

The Seventh Edition of Colomboscope: Language is Migrant

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

WITNESS: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

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.

Alfredo Jaar: The Rwanda Project on show at Zeitz MOCAA

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.