This weekend, the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) will be opening the much-anticipated Yakhal’ Inkomo exhibition, the first curatorial iteration from the Bongi Dhlomo collection.

Yakhal’ Inkomo aims to incite, inspire and sustain new engagement with various creative forms that are at the heart of articulating a raw and truthful experience of apartheid.  The Bongi Dhlomo collection features pieces by some of the most important artists working in South Africa between 1960 and 1990.The works will be arranged around the concepts of alienation, nostalgia, mobility and spirituality, taking a thematic rather than a chronological approach. However, notable touch points such as the 1960 Sharpeville massacre and 1976 Soweto uprising will be highlighted to demonstrate the creative and sensory experiences that were produced in response to these traumatic events.

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Name:                        [• Bongi Dhlomo]

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