SENSE OF SPACE – PREPOSITION OF PLACE
Ausstellung von Masixole Ncefu
01.03.-16.04.25
Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig

Masixole Ncevu’s exhibition SENSE OF SPACE – PREPOSITION OF PLACE is a call for healing, drawing attention to the memory of the land while directly engaging with global conversations around theories of space and place in anthropology and art. It takes an introspective look at soil as a vessel of memory and history, as countries of the Global North attempt to grapple with the consequences of their past actions as movers of earth with a limited understanding of soil and its histories. Through this, the exhibition considers exile, land dispossession, revolutionaries and war as obstructions to the sedimentation of consciousness. Coming from South Africa, with its socio-political history of land appropriation and settler colonialism, Ncevu addresses territory as the centre of ongoing and pressing political conflicts, particularly given that the question of land and wealth restitution is not yet successfully dealt with in the post-apartheid state. Through performative and sensorial practices, the exhibition invites visitors to participate in gestures of reparation and witnessing. [...]

Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig
Spinnereistraße 7
04179 Leipzig
DE