Inganekwane Post-Event

NAME OF EVENT: Inganekwane Exhibition
DATE OF THE EVENT: October 2, 2021
LOCATION OF THE EVENT: Constitutional Hill
NUMBER OF PERSONS ATTENDING: 130 SPONSORING ORGANISATION(S): Rubis Mécénat and Easigas Pty Ltd
CONTACT NAME: Amy Daniels
CONTACT NUMBER: +27714062993
EMAIL: ofsoulandjoy@gmail.com

LAUNCH EVENT

The launch event on Saturday 2 October was a great success, as the foyer was filled with visitors, including many exhibition contributors and members of the public. The event's opening highlight was enjoyed by an audience of over 130 people packed into the Constitutional Hill space.

David Maziba, Exhibitions & Collections Coordinator of Constitutional Hill and Jabulani Dhlamini, Project Manager of the Of Soul and Joy Photo Project, joined by Curator Teboho Ralesai were on hand to open the exhibition. The keynote speaker was Walter Sanchez, Managing director of Easigas (Southern Africa) who acknowledged the role of sponsors Easigas Pty Ltd and Rubis Mécénat .

The exhibition is a collection of 62 photographs by 16 artists, all of which were students and staff of the Of Soul and Joy Photo Project, taking different approaches to the theme Khumalo Street. The exhibition itself was well curated and showed only the best pieces by the individual artists, which meant that everything was in high quality and interesting to look at. The diverse ways that the photographs were shown helped to highlight that each of these works were from different people and were designed to have different impacts which created an important testimonial on the realities of township life and its present day challenges.

During the day, guests had the opportunity to enjoy live musical entertainment and performances while sharing opinions and thoughts on the displayed artworks. The physical space of the exhibition is almost as important as the photography itself. In this case, the photographs were shown in a living museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy, which made the experience useful for learning about photography and created cohesion to reappraise a certain time in South African History and to explore the interconnection between creative visual narrative and history