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Group show - The Armory Show New York
Group show - The Armory Show New York
Group show - The Armory Show New York
Group show - The Armory Show New York
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The Armory Show 2023

New York
8 - 10 September 2023

Southern Guild’s debut at The Armory Show focuses on Zizipho Poswa, Manyaku Mashilo, Kamyar Bineshtarigh and Oluseye, whose work brings the ancestral into conversation with the contemporary.

Group show - The Armory Show New York
Group show - The Armory Show New York
Group show - The Armory Show New York
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Southern Guild exhibits for the first time at The Armory Show 2023 in New York with a tightly curated presentation representing a new African vanguard where purpose and representation can be renegotiated with vital agency. The exhibited artists offer calls to an alternate world as a means of shedding historic traumas and reimagining a healed, whole and more abundant self.

The booth features new and recent work by sculptural artist Zizipho Poswa, including a monumental all-bronze totem, commissioned specifically for the fair, alongside a pair of sculptures from the artist’s 2022 body of work, uBuhle boKhokho (Beauty of Our Ancestors.) Also featured are paintings by Manyaku Mashilo depicting cinematic, spectral scenes of figures floating through liminal, dreamlike landscapes. Reconfiguring elements of myth, science fiction, spiritual tradition and ritual, Mashilo’s works reveal an ever-expanding new realm for healing of the past and a reimagining of future realities. Cape Town-based Iranian artist Kamyar Bineshtarigh shows several expansive paintings in which text and Arabic script become an explorative means to study the nature of mark-making and the cultural complexities that often arise through translation. In addition, an installation of talisman-like objects by Nigerian-Canadian artist Oluseye, from his ongoing Eminado Series, embody the transgenerational movement of the Black diaspora.