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A Piece of Ground is a complication of South African music inspired by Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s Slaghuis II.   The selection resonates like a vision of bodies and spirits gathered in the same room, sometimes at odds with each other, yet always held by a shared wound. Assembled at the Slaghuis, the […]

Slaghuis II; Performing the artist statement.  Slaghuis II, the exhibition, features a statement from Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, which narrates a scene, perhaps a dream–possibly a nightmare–that occurs before his eyes. Hlatshwayo shared the text with Market Theatre Laboratory alumni, Chris Djuma who adapted the text and performed it at the first Slaguis II public walkabout […]

SLAGHUIS II: The Installation Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s debut solo exhibition, Slaghuis II opened on 28 February at the Photo Workshop Gallery. During the few weeks of February, the gallery was transformed with dark colour and by subdued light, to conceive a space ready to hold the body of work created over […]

Nelisiwe Nkosi first joined The Market Photo Workshop for the Foundation Course in Photography (FC) in 2017, she then followed through to the Intermediate Course in Photography (IC) and then went on to complete the Advanced Photography Programme (APP) in 2019. She produced her body of work ‘Break Even’ during […]