Sabelo Mlangeni
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'Men Only' and 'At Home'
Sabelo Mlangeni at Stevenson in JohannesburgBrodie/Stevenson hosts two bodies of work by Sableo Mlangeni during April. 'Men Only' is a docementary series that looks at life in the George Gosh men's hostel, shown in the gallery's main space. 'At Home' represents rural life in South Africa as the counterpoint to urban hostel living; this is exhibited in the gallery's Project Room.
23 March 2010 - 30 April 2010
'Possible Cities: Africa in Photography and Video'
Guy Tillim, Pieter Hugo and Sabelo Mlangeni at Cantor Fitzgerald GalleryThe exhibition 'Possible Cities: Africa in Photography and Video' includes photo installations by Sammy Baloji, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Guy Tillim, and video installations by Salem Mekuria and married artists and collective IngridMwangiRobertHutter. Curated by Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ruti Talmor, the exhibition seeks to complicate representations of Africa through a set of works on cities as sites of convergence of multiple pasts and futures and as collections of changing and changeable sites that may or may not be geographically contiguous.
18 March 2011 - 29 April 2011
'Afropolis: City, Media, Art'
Naomi Roux and Hannah le Roux, Ismail Farouk, Sabelo Mlangeni, Kgafela oa Magogodi and Jyoti Mistry, Deadheat (Dorothee Kreutzfeldt and Bettina Malcomess) and Minnette Vari at Rautenstrauch-Joest-MuseumToday, over half the world's population lives in cities. In particular, the regions of the Global South face rapid globalisation, with African cities recording the highest urbanisation rates. The African contexts have created specific urban structures, topographies and cultures, notably different from European-American models of urban development. How do these structures function? How do urban dwellers organise their daily life? What issues are addressed in the African discourse on the history and future of cities? What positions do European and African artists take on urbanity in Africa?
'Afropolis' showcases five African cities - Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa and Johannesburg. The curatorial approach highlights the interconnectedness of scientific and artistic concepts, not only exploring urban histories and recent developments, but also presenting 30 artistic viewpoints on issues of urbanity about and from these five cities. The result is a remarkable synergy of scientific and artistic research, documentary material and artistic reflection. The works shown in 'Afropolis' include graphic arts, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, film and video art, as well as design, comics and weblogs.
05 November 2010 - 13 March 2011
