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Almine Rech

Sala

Following Two Together, Zeitz MOCAA’s first exhibition that embraced artworks from the museum’s permanent collection, Sala is a new permanent collection exhibition that aims to further the museum’s vision and mission. Through an in-depth research project in collaboration with the 2023 cohort of Zeitz MOCAA & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Museum Fellows, this exhibition aims to better understand the values of the institution, the role of contemporary art in society, how the museum’s team link and mediate the work of artists, and how the institution connects with and becomes a home for its audiences.

“More than simply a way to articulate and mediate the contents of Zeitz MOCAA’s collection to the public, the process behind Sala was consultative and collaborative, bringing together staff groups from across museum departments,” says Storm Janse van Rensburg, Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at Zeitz MOCAA and the principal curator for the exhibition. “The decision to engage in a dialectic process with the Zeitz MOCAA & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Museum Fellows provided further insight into how our institutional identity is shaped by our holdings.
“I am indebted to my collaborators in this process — Evaan Jason Ferreira, Bulelwa Lomusa Kunene, Mona Eshraghi Hakimi, Pauline Buhlebenkosi Ndhlovu and Ana Raquel Machava —as well as every museum team member who provided insight and guidance or offered different perspectives. Through this process, we have furthered our goal of embracing curatorial practice, exhibition-making and institution-building as intertwined, inseparable, conjoined and entangled.”
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