The Weight of Holding

Chapter I is anchored by Thabiso Dakamela, whose paintings establish the exhibition's central inquiry through intimacy, psychological weight, and the structures people create around one another.

The installation was developed through restraint and deliberate sequencing, allowing individual works to stand independently while building a larger emotional and spatial progression.

Yokanna enters as the artist in dialogue. His works introduce a quieter but more fractured register, shifting the exhibition toward questions of visibility, absence, withholding, and what remains unresolved.