Cape Town’s city centre will be transformed into a cultural playground for the second annual edition of the Heat Festival, a winter arts fair taking place in August under the theme of ‘Other Worlding’. As part of a city-wide series of festival exhibitions, HUB Gallery presents a bold new show, Echoes of Elsewhere: Fragments of the Past, Visions of Tomorrow, that invites audiences to step into imagined futures and reflect on the world as it could be.

‘In a world constantly changing at a rapid velocity, this exhibition offers a pause - a space to reflect on the stories we inherit, the identities we perform, and the futures we dare to dream. Echoes of Elsewhere is not merely an exhibition to be observed but an experience to be inhabited. It encourages viewers to sit with the discomfort of the unknown and to imagine worlds where liberation is a tangible possibility. By merging the speculative with the tangible, the artists remind us that the future is not predetermined - it is a collective project, waiting to be shaped. The exhibition ultimately asks not just ‘what if?’ but ‘what now?’ - compelling us to recognize ourselves as co-authors of unfolding stories,’ Khumalo states.

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