Goodman Gallery presents Frameworks, a dialogue between selected works by David Goldblatt and Kiluanji Kia Henda. Through film and photography, the exhibition explores notions of migrancy and belonging in the context of two distinct yet interconnected societies in Southern Africa: Angola and South Africa - places that continue to wrestle with the legacy of colonial dispossession and its intersection with contemporary challenges.
From humble dwellings to large-scale urban development, Frameworks reflects on permanence and impermanence.
Both artists' practices have emerged within these complex social fabrics. Where urban, rural or nomadic structures - or their destruction - can be seen as expressions of underlying values and ideologies.
Artworks
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Iron Age corbelled stone huts, Sedan, Near Lindley, Ofs. 24/25 July 1992 , 1992
David Goldblatt
The Place of the Elephant, uMgungundlovu, capital of the Zulu king, Dingane, destroyed after his defeat by the Boers in 1838: here under excavation and reconstruction by archaeologists, Dinganestad, Natal , 1989
David Goldblatt
Luke Kgatitsoe in his house, bulldozed in February 1984 by the government after the forced removal of the people of Magopa, a black-owned farm, which had been declared a "black spot", Ventersdorp district, Transvaal. 21 October 1986 , 1986
David Goldblatt
Mother and child, Vorstershoop, North-West Province. 11 April 2003 , 2003
David Goldblatt
The ruins of what is thought to be a 15th or 16th century pre-colonial village, Dithakong, North-West Province. 13 June 2003 , 2003
David Goldblatt
Incomplete houses, part of a stalled municipal development of 1000 houses. The funding allocation was made in 1998, building started in 2003. Officials and a politician gave various reasons for the stalling of the scheme: shortage of water, theft of materials, problems with sewerage disposal, problems caused by the high clay content of the soil and the shortage of funds. By August 2006 420 houses had been completed. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape. 5 August 2006 , 2006
David Goldblatt
Sheep Shearer, Piet Rhenoster with his cart, Colesburg-Philipstown Road. 30 December 1986 , 1986
David Goldblatt
The home of a couple who went to Cape Town to look for work, Engcobo, Transkei. 9 October 1975 , 1975
David Goldblatt
Mother and child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by officials of the Western Cape Development Board Crossroads, Cape Town, 11 October 1984. , 1984
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Structures of Survival (Kilometer 19, Namibe) III, 2022
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Structures of Survival (Kilometer 19, Namibe) II, 2022
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Structures of Survival (Kilometer 19, Namibe) I, 2022
