Every year, as August approaches, South Africa honours women—our histories, our voices, our power. It’s a time of tribute, marking the 1956 march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings to protest against the oppressive pass laws. It’s also a time filled with gestures of appreciation, celebration, and symbolic recognition. But alongside the public praise, many women carry quieter, more complicated feelings: exhaustion, frustration, and the ache of progress that still feels too slow.

Happy Women’s Month, I Guess… is an invitation to hold both—

to celebrate, and to question;

to feel proud, and still long for more.

Arriving just ahead of Women’s Month, the exhibition gathers artists whose works trace their layered experiences of being women in South Africa, where beauty and discomfort often sit side by side. Set within a space softened by flowers that will naturally wilt and die, the exhibition invites reflection: on how far we’ve come, and how far we still need to go.

Rather than resolve these tensions, the works in this show allow them to breathe.

Here, beauty and discomfort coexist.

Joy and grief are not opposites.

They belong in the same room.

In one part of the space, a video installation gives voice to women of all ages sharing their feelings about Women’s Day—what it evokes, what it conceals, and what they hope for. These unscripted reflections add new layers of honesty, contradiction, and care.

Leave your lipstick mark in solidarity for change. Across the room, a wall invites visitors to leave a lipstick kiss—an intimate, personal mark of presence and solidarity. This simple gesture, both tender and powerful, nods to femininity, protest, and the

The exhibition is on display from ​​28 June to  24 August 2025.