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WITNESS
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"What does it mean to witness, to truly see, when seeing itself is suspect?"
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Witness brings together Johno Mellish, Nonzuzo Gxekwa, Kuba Freter, Douglas Kirkland, and Manyatsa Monyamane, whose practices explore the complexity of seeing and being seen. Across portraiture, atmosphere, and architectural detail, their photographs unsettle the idea of truth in an image, lingering instead in ambiguity, intimacy, and memory.
In gestures of care, hesitation, and attention, the works insist that witnessing is never passive: it is relational, a form of presence. The exhibition responds to a world of accelerated images with slowness, opacity, and reflection, holding space for the subtle exchanges between past and present, self and other, image and viewer.
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The photographs in Witness are shaped through intimacy, ambiguity, and delay. Light settles on surfaces, slipping between presence and absence. Portraits hold the gaze but resist capture, while architectural details linger as quiet traces of what has passed. Each image turns away from spectacle, insisting instead on relation, on the slow labour of seeing. There is care in the framing, a kind of attention made visible in how the photograph listens, hesitates, and remains.
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