The Javett-UP presents a curatorial dialogue with Gabi Ngcobo (Curatorial Director, Javett-UP) and Danielle Oosthuizen (Coordinator: Education and Public Engagement)

Gabi Ngcobo and Danielle Oosthuizen will mediate a participatory curatorial dialogue focusing on the exhibition Handle with Care. The exhibition draws from selected works from the South32 Collection on loan to the Javett-UP for a period of ten years. First assembled in 1994, the collection was the first of its kind to endeavour collecting radically, and from the onset, evenly across South Africa’s racialised demographics and gendered subjects. Through a combination of participatory exercises the dialogue is meant to engage the public on the curatorial process of creating critical connections that may not be immediately obvious in the exhibition and it’s themes. The curatorial dialogue forms part of activities marking the Javett-UP second year since our opening on 24 September 2019.