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Expo Chicago 2023
Expo Chicago 2023
Expo Chicago 2023
Expo Chicago 2023
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Expo Chicago 2023

Chicago
13 – 16 April 2023

Rich in materiality and divergent in form, Southern Guild’s debut at Expo Chicago speaks to the ingenuity of the human hand and the labor-intensive processes that elevate the prosaic to the sublime.

Expo Chicago 2023
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For Expo Chicago 2023, Southern Guild presents a collection of works by leading artists from across the African continent. Highlights of the gallery’s booth in the main section of the fair include a large self-portrait in bronze by visual activist Zanele Muholi, representing the artist’s departure from an exclusively photographic oeuvre. Two large-scale ceramic and bronze sculptures from Zizipho Poswa’s critically acclaimed recent solo, uBuhle boKhokho, inspired by traditional styles of African hair, appear alongside recent works by Andile Dyalvane, Madoda Fani and Chuma Maweni – regarded as Africa’s foremost ceramicists.

Anchoring the booth is an expansive and tactile painting by Iranian artist Kamyar Bineshtarigh excavated from the wall of his studio in Salt River, Cape Town. New paintings by Manyaku Mashilo construct mythological scenes where imagined embodiments of Blackness migrate through abstract liminal spaces. Also included are bronze and hand-blown glass sculptures by Kenyan artist Stanislaw Trzebinski, new assemblage-sculpture by Nigerian-Canadian artist Oluseye, rubber tapestries by Congolese artist Patrick Bongoy, and a large bronze sculpture by Beninese artist Dominique Zinkpè. In addition, Southern Guild presents a large-scale fabric collage hanging by Jeanne Gaigher in the IN/SITU programme curated by Caludia Segura.