


I Seek Your Softness: Tender Explorations of Paint
Dineo Ponde, Kay-Leigh Fisher, Joƫlle Joubert and Emily Rae Smith Labuschagne
Softly, hand near hand, skin near skin, here we are.This exhibition speaks to the intimacy, connection, and vulnerability required in order to experience a transfer of energy - of love, of care, of presence, of body warmth. It is the active energy generated by the very notion of being alive. And it is shared across bodies by their closeness, their company, their vulnerability, their care. I Seek Your Softness responds to a global moment that leaves us deeply yearning for the spaces and people who offer softness. The exhibition rejects hostility, and it does so gently. It focuses on our reaching for less complex comforts in a time of despair, as we simultaneously question the integrity of ourselves. Our scale. Our power. Where our skin begins and ends. We hunker into hands woven together, ready to hold us.