Artists:
Jody Brand
Edson Chagas
Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Calvin Dondo
Nicholas Hlobo
Pieter Hugo
Binelde Hyrcan
Samson Kambalu
William Kentridge
Lebohang Kganye
Moshekwa Langa
Sabelo Mlangeni
Santu Mofokeng
Zanele Muholi
Musa N. Nxumalo
Robin Rhode
Athi-Patra Ruga
Penny Siopis
Mikhael Subotzky
Guy Tillim
Kyle Weeks
Exhibition production:
Zeb Smith
Zach Viljoen
Support:
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
A. Alfred Taubman Foundation
Photographs:
Breann White
Clare Gatto
Crossing Night is an exhibition series organised by A4 with partner institutions elsewhere in the world. The project focuses on artistic practices from the Southern African region.
This second iteration of the project, subtitled Regional Identities x Global Context, is produced in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) and highlights states of flux and liminality in urban landscapes in Southern Africa. Emphasising transition and transformation, the exhibition explores how local politics, urban landscape, and place shape the personal identities that define regional culture. In addition, the exhibition queries the efficacy of regionality itself in the context of the hyper-networked digital contemporary.
The first iteration of Crossing Night, curated by Francisco Berzunza in Oaxaca, Mexico, investigated societal relationships between death practices in Southern Africa and Mexico to unearth historical preoccupations in the two postcolonial regions.
MOCAD and A4 Arts Foundation are proud to partner with the Wedge Collection as a contributor to Crossing Night: Regional Identities X Global Context. Based in Toronto, the Wedge Collection is one of Canada's largest privately owned contemporary art collections focusing on exploring African diasporic culture and contemporary Black life.
