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Artist Focus: Aaron Philander

This week, we turn our Artist Focus spotlight on the exceptional Aaron Philander (b. 2002), a South African sculptor whose work centres on themes of identity, memory, domestic life, and intergenerational labour. Drawing deeply on his coloured heritage, Philander explores the complexities of a society that has long imposed narrow belonging in often conflicting identity categories. His sculptural practice is rooted in the use of inherited and found materials, such as rusted too

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Artist Focus: Sitaara Stodel

Our Artist Focus this week celebrates the remarkable artistry of Sitaara Stodel. Sitaara Stodel (b.1991) is a Cape Town-based contemporary artist working across mediums of photography, collage, video, and printmaking. For the artist, moving house was a constant event throughout her life. Stodel recalls moving house forty times in her lifetime. During childhood, the artist, her sister, and mother moved into properties which they could not afford; which resulted in regular evic

Nov 112 min read

As Tides Change - The temporality of the present feeds into the transformation of the future.

Now Showing: As Tides Change - The temporality of the present feeds into the transformation of the future. Exhibition text: As Tides Change is a meditation on movement, transformation, and the in-between. Like the rhythms of the ocean, African histories, identities, and creative expressions are never still. They shift, re-form, and rise again through time, place, and material. This exhibition reflects on that continual state of becoming, where change is not a rupture but a re

Oct 162 min read

Brook-Lynn Norkie’s The Wrong Van Riebeeck Joins the Iziko Museums of South Africa Collection

Under the Aegis is thrilled to share that Brook-Lynn Norkie’s striking work The Wrong Van Riebeeck (2024) has been officially acquired by the Iziko Museums of South Africa, marking a significant milestone in the artist’s career and a bold new chapter for one of the country’s most historic art institutions. The acquisition was unveiled as part of their new exhibition REFLECTIONS, the landmark exhibition inaugurating the reimagined Iziko Old Town House Museum and Michaelis Col

Oct 151 min read