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Constellations of Listening
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Inspired by the concept of listening, this curatorial project unfolds as a constellation of voices that explore how contemporary art can expand the very notion of listening beyond sound. Listening, here, is not passive: it is an active, embodied, and ethical gesture — a practice of attention that renders audible what is often disregarded, giving form to silences, resonances, and hidden memories.The selection of artists — Ana Malta (Portugal, 1996), Barbara Wildenboer (South Africa, 1973), Cássio Markowski (Brazil, 1972), Ibrahim Bemba Kébé (Mali, 1996), Osvaldo Ferreira (Angola, 1980) and Sanjo Lawal (Nigeria, 1997) — establishes a transcontinental dialogue where tradition, identity, and experimentation converge. Each, from their symbolic and cultural territory, presents works that, more than being seen, demand to be listened to with attentiveness and presence. Ana Malta explores chromatic compositions that reverberate as visual rhythms, capturing the flows and cadences of the everyday. Barbara Wildenboer develops a practice that, combining analogue and digital processes, reflects on temporality, interconnectedness, and the ways in which humanity is shaped by globalisation, crises, and the vulnerabilities of the present. Cássio Markowski invokes memory and ancestry, creating fragmented bodies that echo buried collective narratives. Ibrahim Bemba Kébé draws on the cultural wisdom of the Korèdugaw, transfiguring it into plastic gestures resonating between tradition and contemporaneity. Osvaldo Ferreira addresses the continuities and fractures of Angolan life, where fabric, colour, and texture become reverberations of cultural heritage. Finally, Sanjo Lawal creates vibrant photographic images that interrogate the intergenerational transmission of tradition, composing an imagistic territory that pulses between spirituality and the immediacy of the present.This project is not confined to the presentation of works. It configures a space of expanded listening, where seeing and hearing intertwine. It resists the immediacy of answers, proposing instead pauses, intervals, and echoes that open up space for reflection. In so doing, it creates the conditions for an active engagement with art and with narratives that only emerge when one truly, deeply, chooses to listen.
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Ana MaltaCaça ao Conformismo, 2026Acrylic, soft pastel, and oil bar on canvas120 x 120 cmSold -
Ana MaltaCom Medo e sem Cão, 2026Acrylic and soft pastel on paper75 x 105 cm -
Ana MaltaTeimo Inventar mimo criar, 2026Acrylic and soft pastel on paper75 x 105 cm -
Ana MaltaTempo Lento sem Lamento, 2026Acrylic and soft pastel on paper75 x 105 cm
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Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation I (256 Hz), 2026Oak, olive, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork58 x 26 x 44cm -
Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation II (384 Hz), 2026Oak, fig, olive, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork54 x 19 x 36cm -
Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation III (480 Hz), 2026Oak, olive, cedar, ivy, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork49 x 11 x 28cm -
Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation IV (341,3 Hz) , 2026Oak, olive, cedar, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork52 x 11 x 24cm
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Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation V (512Hz), 2026Oak, olive, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork65 x 29 x 40cm -
Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation VI (288 Hz), 2026Oak, cedar, pine, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork73 x 12 x 16cm -
Barbara WildenboerAn Ancient Conversation VII (320 Hz), 2026Oak, olive, pine, yellowwood, porcelain, silver thread, tuning fork55 x 18 x 31cm -
Barbara WildenboerThe Evolution of Harmony, 2026Altered book50 × 60 cm (framed)Sold
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Cássio Markowski#01 - Série Plantação , 2025Indian ink and gold leaf on offset paper, pages from the book “Forty Unpublished Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina” – 1970 by J.B. Debret, limited edition, copy no. 023846 x 32 cm -
Cássio Markowski#02 - Série Plantação , 2025Indian ink and gold leaf on offset paper, pages from the book “Forty Unpublished Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina” – 1970 by J.B. Debret, limited edition, copy no. 023846 x 32 cm -
Cássio Markowski#06 - Série Plantação , 2025Indian ink and gold leaf on offset paper, pages from the book “Forty Unpublished Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina” – 1970 by J.B. Debret, limited edition, copy no. 023846 x 32 cm -
Cássio Markowski#07 - Série Plantação , 2025Indian ink and gold leaf on offset paper, pages from the book “Forty Unpublished Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina” – 1970 by J.B. Debret, limited edition, copy no. 023846 x 32 cm
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Cássio Markowski#08 - Série Plantação , 2025Indian ink and gold leaf on offset paper, pages from the book “Forty Unpublished Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina” – 1970 by J.B. Debret, limited edition, copy no. 023846 x 32 cm -
Cássio Markowski#09 - Série Plantação , 2025Indian ink and gold leaf on offset paper, pages from the book “Forty Unpublished Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina” – 1970 by J.B. Debret, limited edition, copy no. 023846 x 32 cm -
Cássio MarkowskiA Espera, 2025Graphite, vinyl paint, colored pencils, and gouache on linen70 x 80 cm -
Cássio MarkowskiO Menino e a Árvore do Viajante - Series: Escuto no Mar as histórias dos Rios, 2026Graphite and gouache drawings on cut rice and bamboo paper
fixed with entomological pins on panel40 x 40 cm
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Cássio MarkowskiO Menino passarinho e o Pote Mágico - Series: Escuto no Mar as histórias dos Rios, 2026Graphite and gouache drawings on cut rice and bamboo paper
fixed with entomological pins on panel40 x 40 cm -
Cássio MarkowskiO Encontro com o Jaguar Voador - Series: Escuto no Mar as histórias dos Rios, 2026Graphite and gouache drawings on cut rice and bamboo paper
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Cássio MarkowskiA Menina que Dançava no Campo de Algodão – Series: Escuto no Mar as histórias dos Rios, 2026Graphite and gouache drawings on cut rice and bamboo paper
fixed with entomological pins on panel40 x 40 cmSold -
Cássio MarkowskiTerra & Mar, 2026Graphite and gouache drawings on rice paper glued onto bamboo paper63 x 53 cm
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Sanjo Lawal7 Days Up & Grinding, 2024Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm -
Sanjo LawalBrotherly Odyssey: Hand in Hand, 2024Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm -
Sanjo LawalBrotherly Odyssey: Imperfect Balance, 2025Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g50 x 70 cm -
Sanjo LawalBrothers Bond, 2024Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm
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Sanjo LawalChronicles of Japa, 2023Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g50 x 70 cm -
Sanjo LawalComing to your aid, my brother, 2025Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g50 x 70 cm -
Sanjo LawalFila (cap), 2025Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm -
Sanjo LawalHeavy is the head (fila), 2022Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm
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Sanjo LawalSharing the Creative Flow - Brothers Lawee, 2025Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm -
Sanjo LawalSolitary Contemplations, 2024Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g90 x 120 cm -
Sanjo LawalState Of Minds, 2023Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm -
Sanjo LawalThe Relationship of the headtie (gele) & fila (cap), 2022Glycée print, fine art paper, 310g70 x 90 cm
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INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR 2026: Constellations of Listening
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