Southern Guild has exhibited for the first time at The Armory Show in New York City at the Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side from 8-10 September. Situated in the main section of the fair, the gallery’s booth has focused on the work of sculptural artist Zizipho Poswa (South Africa), painters Kamyar Bineshtarigh (Iran/South Africa) and Manyaku Mashilo (South Africa) and conceptual artist Oluseye (Nigeria/Canada).
Driven by a deep interest in materiality and process, Southern Guild offers a platform for diverse African narratives explored through multi-disciplinary art forms. The gallery’s presentation at the Armory speaks of its interest in bringing the ancestral into conversation with the contemporary.
SOUTHERN GUILD’S BOOTH HAS FEATURED:
New and recent work by South African sculptural artist , including a monumental all-bronze totem explicitly commissioned for the fair, alongside a pair of sculptures from the artist’s 2022 body of work, uBuhle boKhokho (Beauty of Our Ancestors). Inspired by her Xhosa culture and evoking powerfully feminine forms, the artist’s work pays tribute to the matriarchs and rural African women who raised her. Poswa’s participation in the Armory Show follows her warmly received first US solo, iiNtsika zeSizwe (Pillars of the Nation), at Galerie56 in New York’s Tribeca this
