LOST LOVER
Lanchonete<>Lanchonete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1 September 2018
Rampa, Porto, Portugal
24 May - 16 June 2019
More info here
Artists: Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Reza Farkhondeh & Ghada Amer, Lungiswa Gqunta, Dan Halter, William Kentridge, Malebona Maphutse, Nástio Mosquito, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Lunga Ntila, Nkiruka Oparah, Athi-Patra Ruga and Jonah Sack.
Curated by Lara Koseff
Lanchonete<>Lanchonete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1 September 2018
Rampa, Porto, Portugal
24 May - 16 June 2019
More info here
Artists: Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Reza Farkhondeh & Ghada Amer, Lungiswa Gqunta, Dan Halter, William Kentridge, Malebona Maphutse, Nástio Mosquito, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Lunga Ntila, Nkiruka Oparah, Athi-Patra Ruga and Jonah Sack.
Curated by Lara Koseff
LOST LOVER, first presented at Lanchonete<>Lanchonete project space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a video programme curated by Lara Koseff, exploring an allegory of longing – whether it is for a reclaimed or new romantic, political or social reality. The programme first took place in collaboration with curator Paula Borghi and artist Thelma Vilas Boas in the street outside Lanchonete<>Lanchonete, which was at the time situated in an old snack bar in Gamboa, a part of the city where historically slaves arrived from Africa, and many years later, in recent history, was intensively and thoughtlessly gentrified to serve visitors coming to see major sporting events. This is within an area where communities were brutally traded, and oppressed, and their decedents, in turn, marginalised and ignored in favor of holidaymakers and moneyed cliques. To these communities, was presented a programme in image, music and light that illuminates various strains of longing, offering different and new realities that were lost along the way, from across the Atlantic, and suggesting the need for new routes of reclamation.
By invitation of Noémia Herdade Gomes and Nuno de Campos of Rampa, the exhibition then travelled to a very different yet connected context – Portugal, the country that played a central role in the Atlantic Slave Trade, and has an interweaved and complex connection to both Brazil and Africa. Rampa is an alternative space, located in Pátio do Bolhão in downtown Porto. Named after the long ramp that leads visitors into a half-basement warehouse, Rampa's aim is relooking at old bridges between Porto and the world, and finding and reclaiming new paths of understanding between this and other cities.
By invitation of Noémia Herdade Gomes and Nuno de Campos of Rampa, the exhibition then travelled to a very different yet connected context – Portugal, the country that played a central role in the Atlantic Slave Trade, and has an interweaved and complex connection to both Brazil and Africa. Rampa is an alternative space, located in Pátio do Bolhão in downtown Porto. Named after the long ramp that leads visitors into a half-basement warehouse, Rampa's aim is relooking at old bridges between Porto and the world, and finding and reclaiming new paths of understanding between this and other cities.
Open call project ︎
Art
Siviwe James
Ubuhle Ngaphaya Kwameva
Opening Sunday 2 February 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
Phumelele Kunene
In My Element
Opening Sunday 2 March 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
Art
After
Baby Vol.2
Siviwe James
Ubuhle Ngaphaya Kwameva
Opening Sunday 2 February 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
Phumelele Kunene
In My Element
Opening Sunday 2 March 2025 at 10am
Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg
INCCA is pleased to announce the two incredibly talented artists selected from our Art After Baby (AAB) open call – Siviwe James and Phumelele Kunene. Each artist will hold their own solo exhibitions in February and March 2025 at Victoria Yards, Lorentzville, Johannesburg. We look forward to revealing more and platforming their powerful work to our network in the coming weeks.
The second edition of AAB is again supported by the National Arts Council South Africa (NAC) Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 5). AAB is an ongoing project initiated by INCCA in 2023 that supports those who are trying to juggle art-making with motherhood, care-giving or have been impacted by loss. This is one of the few projects in South Africa that acknowledges that artists are often “zero-hour workers” with a sporadic and unreliable income, and that many women carry the responsibility of being primary caregivers without the financial cushion to continue their practice.
The selected artists both create deeply personal work that reflects not only their positions as caregivers and artists, but also how they have navigated loss, which has impacted their roles as mothers and created new, unexpected paths for them as creatives.
The overall aim of AAB is to confront what remains a taboo subject, and to find pathways for the accepted applicants to participate in an industry often still dominated by men and/or privilege, and also to explore how art-making itself can be a cathartic salve for the many challenges of motherhood, caregiving and/or trauma and loss. AAB aims to provide artists with a short period of breathing room to focus on their work, and motivates those who are battling to juggle a career in the arts to find spaces and avenues to continue producing. In addition, we hope to establish routes and approaches for others in similar positions.
Previous recipients include artists Ditiro Mashigo and Naledi Chai.
The second edition of AAB is again supported by the National Arts Council South Africa (NAC) Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 5). AAB is an ongoing project initiated by INCCA in 2023 that supports those who are trying to juggle art-making with motherhood, care-giving or have been impacted by loss. This is one of the few projects in South Africa that acknowledges that artists are often “zero-hour workers” with a sporadic and unreliable income, and that many women carry the responsibility of being primary caregivers without the financial cushion to continue their practice.
The selected artists both create deeply personal work that reflects not only their positions as caregivers and artists, but also how they have navigated loss, which has impacted their roles as mothers and created new, unexpected paths for them as creatives.
The overall aim of AAB is to confront what remains a taboo subject, and to find pathways for the accepted applicants to participate in an industry often still dominated by men and/or privilege, and also to explore how art-making itself can be a cathartic salve for the many challenges of motherhood, caregiving and/or trauma and loss. AAB aims to provide artists with a short period of breathing room to focus on their work, and motivates those who are battling to juggle a career in the arts to find spaces and avenues to continue producing. In addition, we hope to establish routes and approaches for others in similar positions.
Previous recipients include artists Ditiro Mashigo and Naledi Chai.
Explore Previous AAB projects and texts below