Current Exhibition
08.08. – 10.10.2026
A Secret Third Thing
A group exhibition featuring works by: Senzeni Marasela, Ntsako Nkuna, Simon Gush, Smiso Cele, Siyababa, Oratile Papi Konopi, Masindi Mbolekwa
The exhibition runs until 10 October 2026.
Reflective of the history of its locale, A secret third thing is an excavation and a tenuous mining undergone with no clear end-point in sight. The secrecy the exhibition brings to question is not some retrievable piece of information, but the reckoning with a fidgety, sometimes exciting, sometimes scary and always dynamic undercurrent. This undercurrent is the haunting of a city that refuses to be continuously taken from with no recourse or consequence.
The city refuses a position of docility; the apartment we find ourselves is stripped of any of those homely identifying marks but holds echoes of the city – with music from the street below that makes its way to the fifth floor and the sound of people going about their lives. Adopting this space in limbo, A secret third thing refutes the derogatory assumptions of inner-city Johannesburg – and in turn, the artists presented become active specters that talk back at the city – insinuating the idea of how we can be both the haunted and the ones who haunt in return.
