WE’RE ATTENDING

By Karel van der Vyver Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Cape Town)

Opening on 3 March and running until 29 August is Shooting Down Babylon, by Johannesburg artist Tracey Rose. Rose is a revolutionary artist who focuses on performance art that explores themes of gender, sexuality, race and repatriation. Ahead of the exhibition, the auction house Christie’s notes: “Whether pummelling a punch bag naked, or urinating on the West Bank wall that separates Israel and Palestine, her provocative, lo-fi video works are not for the easily offended.”

This large-scale mixed-media installation will explore works from 1996 to 2019, looking at exorcist and cleansing rituals from non-Western societies and communities, in line with the themes of her work such as post-colonialism, stereotypes imposed on the body and performativity. On until 2 May 2021 is Waiting for

Gebane, a solo exhibition by South African artist Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela. An installation made up of multidisciplinary works of art, such as paintings, textiles and photography, it is also a sobering and powerful exploration of what it means to belong, our relationship with and to others, as well as womanhood.

Don’t miss Chilean-born and New Yorkbased artist Alfredo Jaar’s exhibition,

Alfredo Jaar: The Rwanda Project,

a series of multidisciplinary works inspired by his time in Rwanda in 1994. It runs until 23 May.