Southern Guild at Untitled Art Miami 2022

WORDS Cheri Morris

Southern Guild hits Untitled Art in Miami for the first time from 29 November to 3 December 2022 with a narratively bold group exhibition, including sculpture, painting and multi-media works by eleven established and emerging artists from across Africa.

Rich in mediums, the diverse presentation speaks to the intoxication of creation; its ability to transmute experiences on an individual and collective level through lightness of being.

Featured pieces include a series of woven rubber works by multimedia artist Patrick Bongoy (DRC), paintings by artists Jozua Gerrard (South Africa) and Yolanda Mazwana (South Africa), sculpture by Dominique Zinkpè (Benin), ceramics by Shirley Fintz (Zimbabwe/South Africa) and Xanthe Somers (Zimbabwe/UK), bronze sculpture by Justine Mahoney (South Africa) and collaged paper works by Galia Gluckman (South Africa).

Here, colour is the guiding theme for aesthetic exploration. Cape Town-based ceramicist Shirley Fintz’s five arrestingly coloured glazed stoneware forms from her series, The Healers, speaks to the hues of the energetic chakras within the body. Dominique Zinkpè’s assemblages comprise innumerable carved wooden Ibeji dolls that pay homage to the Yoruba concept of twinship.

As for international art fair first-timers Jozua Gerrard and Yolanda Mazwana, their works reverberate a sense of uninhibited sensuality; an abundance that tips over into excess in Xanthe Somers’ elaborate large-scale ceramic piece and Galia Gluckman’s playful paper and angel hair constructions.

Each of the works beckons viewers into other worlds – portals that confront the here and now while also inviting future visioning.

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