Poetry In Between: South-South / 2015

Featuring Artists: Igshaan Adams, Marcelo Cidade, Kudzanai Chiurai, Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, Sonia Gomes, Haroon Gunn-Salie, William Kentridge, Moshekwa Langa, Turiya Magadlela, Thiago Martins De Melo, Cildo Meireles, Paulo Nazareth, Nuno Ramos, Ariel Reichman, Rosângela Rennó, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, Jeremy Wafer.

To kick-start this annual event Goodman Gallery invited curator Carolyn H. Drake for the first exhibition – The Poetry In Between: South-South. The show brings together a cross-section of intergenerational artists from southern Africa and Brazil. Through existing and newly commissioned works, the exhibition discusses the multifarious issues that connect these two regions within the discourse of the geopolitical south, by addressing universal questions through a southern lens. The point of departure of the exhibition is rooted in poetic manifestations as a way to understand the addressed issues as open ended and varied in meaning.