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Each year, we ask our contributors to share their highlights—here’s what caught their eye in 2024:

The only thing that fascinates me more than art is its audience. I think there is something inherently generative about experiencing something ‘together,’ where ‘together’ is an approximation of proximity rather than a set of agreed-upon experiences.

Hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town Art Fair returns (18–20 February 2022) this year as the largest contemporary art fair in Africa, with 107 galleries presenting online and offline for the fair's 9th edition. 

Investec Cape Town Art Fair takes place from 18-20 February 2022, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

The pivot-point inherent within the definition of ‘perspective’ has been demanding much of my attention lately.

Two weeks ago, I visited a few galleries in my city. Upon reflection, two artists’ work stuck out for me: Lorraine Kalassa at 99 Loop and Sitaara Stodel at Salon 91. Both artists make use of family photographs.

The first time I saw one of Fanie Buys’s paintings, some years ago now, it was a commission hung in a friend’s living room against an emerald wall that played beautifully with the staccato brushstrokes and their colourings.

I first had the privilege of seeing Rory Emmett’s work in 2019, when he participated in the opening selection for the annual group show ‘KWAAI’ at Eclectica Contemporary.

Kings of the World: Taking place over one night in a suburban garden cottage where three friends who have been away from each other for a while unpack their neuroses and the many ways in which they fall short.

In All Seriousness: Marolize Southwood is fascinated with the construct of reality that human beings have created.

Mia Darling is unregenerately romantic and has invested her being in a fantasy world of courtship, romance and magical thinking.

Practicality Everywhere: Inspired by the disorder and decay of urban ecosystems, Dokter and Misses’ solo exhibition showcases a series of collectable furniture such as sculptural cabinets in timber, steel and glass.

The 11th instalment of the annual FNB Joburg Art Fair makes a return to Sandton Convention Centre from 7 - 9 September, offering a diverse spread of contemporary art and design, exhibitions and initiatives.

Fanie Buys, a misbegotten lad, hails from a rural, ultra-conservative, NG Kerk upbringing, and his work revolves around his own queer identity and his unresolved struggles to come to terms with it.

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