FNB Art Joburg: The now, reassembled, and the conditions that call for collage

Written By Georgia Nasseh

Curated by Georgia Nasseh and Gillian Fleischmann, Glimpses of the Now is an invitation to look at life as an event that unfolds like a visual palimpsest. It is layered, torn, rearranged. Anchored by Sam Nhlengethwa’s 2003 lithographic collage series Glimpses of the 50s and 60s, the exhibition moves across time and geographies.

Pairing historic meditation on Black life under apartheid with contemporary voices from Brazil, Cameroon, Lesotho and South Africa, the result is not reading collage as a style. Instead, here collage is presented as a method; a way to rupture the authority of the image and reconfigure the politics of looking.

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Sam Nhlengethwa, Beauty Queens (2003)

Georgia Nasseh