VUYO MABHEKA
DIMAKATSO MATHOPA
MASHUDU NEVHUTALU
PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE
GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCE
SECTEUR PROMESSES
2 – 6 APRIL 2025
AFRONOVA GALLERY presents a dialogue between three young South African artists—Vuyo Mabheka, Dimakatso Mathopa, and Mashudu Nevhutalu—focused on the Archive as a resistant cultural practice. The exhibition explores identity re-appropriation, urban memories, the colonial unconscious, and future perspectives.
Vuyo Mabheka: Popihuise uses photographs and drawings to explore township life, reflecting on gender and childhood through the lens of memory, honoring mothers and presenting a modernized archive of township reality.
Dimakatso Mathopa: Individual Beings Relocated critiques colonial photography through cyanotype prints, exploring her family’s loss of land and reclaiming her ancestral heritage by creating her own archive of black subjectivity.
Mashudu Nevhutalu: His works evoke emotion through reinterpretations of old photographs, emphasizing how memories and histories are not fixed but continuously shape the present.
The exhibition highlights the complexities of identity and memory within the context of South African history.
FAIR HOURS:
Thu – Sat, April 2 – 5 I 12 PM to 8 PM
Sun, April 6 I 12 PM – 7 PM
Source: Art Paris
